Morley Callaghan famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.
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I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.
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I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
-- Morley Callaghan
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
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When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait
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A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith,
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