Poems List

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
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Okie use’ ta mean you was from Oklahoma.

Now it means you’re a dirty son-of-a-bitch.

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Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The Grapes of Wrath (1939) ch. 14

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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.
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