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Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.

You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.