There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

Horace Walpole
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  2. Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. I have to respectfully and carefully... - Red Haircrow

  3. Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza! - Roman Payne

  4. Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons. - Roman Payne

  5. Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer. - Pawan Mishra

More Quotes By Horace Walpole
  1. The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

  2. In science, mistakes always precede the truth.

  3. He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

  4. Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man.

  5. When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

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