Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

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