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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say, don't listen to writers talk about writers or themselves. Lillian Hellman
Beware of advice - even this. Carl Sandburg
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. Philip Roth
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reasons the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce the sound he hears within. Gustave Flaubert
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough. Flannery O'connor
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton
Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne
And one of my all time favs:
I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit. PG Wodehouse
