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The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.


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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.



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When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.



The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.



Novel writing wrecks homes.

Novel writing wrecks homes.



Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.



A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.



Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.



There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.



I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.



Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.





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