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W Somerset Maugham
: We do not write because we want to we write because we have to.
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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clich?s 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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Cardinal (born Armand Jean du Plessis) Richelieu :
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Never write a letter and never destroy one.
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Lord Byron :
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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
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Sir John A Macdonald :
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Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
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Ernest Hemingway :
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Write me at the Hotel Quintana, Pamplona, Spain. Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something
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Ernest Hemingway :
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Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
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George Eliot :
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Henry Miller :
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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
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Elwyn Brooks White :
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist -- nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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George Seldes :
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But much more vicious than these cases is the majority of foreign correspondents who never have to be placed against the wall, who are never told what to write and how to write it, but who know from contact with the great minds of the press lords or from the simple deduction that the bosses are in big business and the news must be slanted accordingly, or from the general intangible atmosphere which prevails everywhere, what they can do and what they must never do. The most stupid boast in the history of present-day journalism is that of the writer who says, "I have never been given orders; I am free to do as I like."
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
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It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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