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• There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
• I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way…
• The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
• When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try…
• It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object…
• To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.
• But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I…
• I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face…

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