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Quote: Philip Larkin

A story has a beginning, a muddle and an end. Philip Larkin .

You can be implacable, disgusted, inert, nonchalant and gormless, so why can’t you be placable, gusted, ert, chalant and gorm?[…]

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson .

I’ve just spent the last two days reading through the 80,000 word novel I wrote in six-and-half weeks last year.[…]

It’s easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren’t writers, and very little harm comes to them.[…]

Source: Doug Savage’s, Savage Chickens.

If a writer has to rob his mother he will not hesitate – the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is[…]

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann .

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write[…]