Topics ยป Writers and Writing
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The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.