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• Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
• It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
• I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never…
• When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for…
• As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that…
• I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not…
• I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first…
• The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.
• You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.
• I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire…
• The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and…
• Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

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