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For some unknown reason we got in to a wrangle about – of all things! – best sellers. All aspiring writers say these things : “ I will not compromise and write a best seller! “ – as if they could!. There may be a few totally faked-up books that sell, but on the whole I believe every writer writes as well as he can. It takes a good story teller to write a best seller, and a good craftsman.

It seems that two qualities are necessary if a great artist is to remain creative to the end of a long life; he must on the one hand retain an abnormally keen awareness of life, he must never grow complacent, never be content with life, must always demand the impossible, and when he cannot have it, must despair. The burden of the mystery must be with him day and night.

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Via Truth&Lies in Literature TEN COMMANDMENTS **1. THOU SHALT NOT DRINK, SMOKE OR TAKE DRUGS **To be a writer you need all the brains you’ve got. **2. THOU SHALT NOT HAVE EXPENSIVE HABITS **A writer is born from talent and time – time to observe, to study, to think. So you can’t afford to waste a single hour earning money for non-essentials. Unless you were lucky enough to he born rich, you had better be prepared to live without too many worldly goods.