A Quote a Day for Writers

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I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

I used to be adjective happy. Now I cut them with so much severity that I find I have to put a few adjectives back.

For several days after my first book was published I carried it about in my pocket, and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.                                            

My point to young writers is to socialize. Don’t just go up to a pine cabin all alone and brood. You reach that stage soon enough anyway.

Editing is the same thing as quarreling with writers — same thing exactly.

Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.

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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Men of few words are the best men.