Quote #35

This was such bad writing that it was good.

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  1. There is much for a young writer to learn from our poorest writers. It is very destructive to burn bad books, almost more destructive than …
  2. It seemed to me that I had no right to burn a book I hadn't even read.
  3. What I intended to do was to burn a half dozen of my books and keep warm, so that I could write my story, but when I looked around for titl…
  4. I couldn't understand the language, I couldn't understand a word in the whole book, but it was somehow too eloquent to use for a fire.
  5. If you can't write a decent short story because of the cold, write something else. Write anything. Write a long letter to somebody.
  6. The only thing I can talk about is the cold because it is the only thing going on today.
  7. Then swiftly, neatly, with the grace of the young man on the trapeze, he was gone from his body. For an eternal moment he was still all thi…
  8. I have a faint idea what it is like to be alive.

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