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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.

— John Dos Passos

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A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel - bound to.

In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.

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