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Your manuscript is both good and original but the parts that are good are not original and the parts that are original are not good.

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As for my next book I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear pendant gravid asking to be cut or it will fall.

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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

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Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.

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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

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You praise the firm restraint with which they write – I’m with you there of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right But where’s the bloody horse?

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Raymond Chandler

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution once revealed must seem to be inevitable.

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Paul Murray Kendall

On the trail of another man the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn: any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

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The editorial job has become unlike the ancient age when one judged what one read a job of making judgements on outlines ideas reputations previous books scenarios treatments talk and promises.

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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better a little better.

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Laurence Clark Powell

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family friends and society are the natural enemies of a writer. He must be alone uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelette and the intolerable so with autobiography.

writers, writing