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Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.
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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it.
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I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.
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Writers speak a stench.
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Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs, the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest, you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.
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We do not, of course, write literary criticism at all now. Academe has won the battle in which Wilson fought so fiercely on the other side. Ambitious English teachers now invent systems that have nothing to do with literature or life but everything to do with those games that must be played in order for them to rise in the academic bureaucracy. Their works are empty indeed. But then, their works are not meant to be full. They are to be taught, not read. The long dialogue has broken down. Fortunately, as Flaubert pointed out, the worst thing about the present is the future. One day there will be no. But I have been asked not to give the game away. Meanwhile, I shall drop a single hint: Only construct!
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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You see this book is finished and it is a bad book and I must get rid of it. It can't be printed. It is bad because it isn't honest.
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It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.
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I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy.
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