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Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.

Maxwell Perkins's Popular Quotes

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

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I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at leas…

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Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could…

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You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

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For real self esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won. The mark you've made - but an appreciation of yourself for…

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It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the wo…

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You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

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Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

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Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

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