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• There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
• The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.
• There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art,…
• The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.
• You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.
• I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way…
• I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing…
• Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just…
• The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through…
• I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or…
• The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
• I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest…

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