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Writing Quotes by John Dos Passos
- I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.
- Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.
- There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.
- The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort…
- There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be…
- If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
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