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» I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

» A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

» A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

» Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

» I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

» I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

» Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

» Novel writing wrecks homes.

» Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

» The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

» The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

» The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

» The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

» There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

» There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

» They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

» When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

» With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

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