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(Contd. from page 2...)Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.