Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Above all, I dislike vulgarity.
When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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