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- I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up…
- If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so,…
- Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming…
- Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are…
- You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become…
- The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to…
- Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can…
- One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see…
- I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin…
- Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make…
- Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
- You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it,…
- You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's…
- The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring…
- This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning…
- In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the…
- My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
- The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something…
- In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt…
- I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill…
- I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You…
- They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why…
- You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your…
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