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[Apr 12, 2007] The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your
reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.