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To Be A Writer Is To Sit Down At One's Desk In The Chill Portion Of Every Day, And To Write; Not Waiting For The Little Jet Of The Blue Flame Of Genius To Start From The Breastbone - Just Plain Going At It, In Pain And Delight. To Be A Writer Is To Throw Away A Great Deal, Not To Be Satisfied, To Type Again, And Then Again, And Once More, And Over And Over...

Events Are Less Important Than Our Responses To Them.

The Writer Must Not Invent. The Legend On The License Must Read: None Of This Was Made Up.

Learning Starts With Failure; The First Failure Is The Beginning Of Education.

The Final Test Of A Work Of Art Is Not Whether It Has Beauty, But Whether It Has Power.