The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity the clichTs that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
W. Somerset Maugham
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