No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
No one writes about the emotional things you go through.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
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