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[Apr 15, 2007] Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
There are a lot of people who can't write and maybe shouldn't write.
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.