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• No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
• Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
• An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both…
• If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
• The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of…
• The writer works in a lonely way.
• I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead…
• Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.
• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
• I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and…
• Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend…

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