In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Will the reader turn the page?
Chamber music a conversation between friends.
On the Fourth of July, 1826, America celebrated its Jubilee the Fiftieth Anniversary of Independence. John Adams, second President of the United States, died that day, aged ninety, while from Maine to Georgia bells rang and cannon boomed. And on that sameday, Thomas Jefferson died before sunset in Virginia. In their dying, in that swift, so aptly celebrated double departure, is something which shakes an American to the heart. It was not their great fame, their long lives or even the record of their work that made these two seem indestructible. It was their faith, their bounding, unquenchable faith in the future, their sure, immortal belief that mankind, if it so desired, could be free.
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
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