"The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from."

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“He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.”

“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

“Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free of rust in the movable parts of the mind.”

“Sometimes I think it sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”

“Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.”

“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”

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