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“Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.”
“Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.”
“What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted."Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thi...”
“...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...”
“T.S. Eliot said to me 'There’s only one way a poet can develop his actual writing – apart from self-criticism & continual practice. And that is by reading other poetry aloud – and it doesn’t matter...”
“If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.”
