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The Boss: You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.
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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
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Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. I knew a lot of writers in London and many of them were award-winning writers and many of them were award-winning, respectable writers. And the trouble with being an award-winning, respectable writer is that you probably are not making a living.
If you write one well-reviewed, well-respected, not bad selling, but not a bestseller list book every three years, which you sell for a whopping 30,000 pounds, that's still going to average out to 10,000 pounds a year and you will make more managing a McDonald's. With overtime you'd probably make more working in a McDonald's. So there were incredibly well-respected, award-winning senior writers who, to make ends meet, were writing film novelizations and tv novelizations under pen names that they were desperately embarrassed about and didn't want anybody to know about.
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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
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The Sabbath is not simply a time to rest, to recuperate. We should look at our work from the outside, not just from within.
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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
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If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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