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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

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I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

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It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

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America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

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Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

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I can't remember how old I was, maybe 13, 14, and to see these fellows and hear their stories and to see life come to such a drab ending - my God, a poorhouse in those days was something. You would have to be inert not to respond to it.

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I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.

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If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 3rd, 1907

Died: October 16th, 1997

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