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The Project Gutenberg EBook of How I write my novels, by Mrs. Hungerford
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: How I write my novels
Author: Mrs. Hungerford
Release Date: December 25, 2008 [EBook #27621]
Language: English
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[Transcriber's note: Mrs. Hungerford (Margaret Wolfe Hamilton) (1855?-1897) How I write my novels
(from Mrs Hungerford's An anxious moment pp. 275-282)]
To sit down in cold blood and deliberately set to cudgel one's brains with a view to dragging from them a plot wherewith to make a book is (I have been told) the habit of some writers, and those of no small reputation. Happy people! What powers of concentration must be theirs! What a belief in themselves—that most desirable of all beliefs, that sweet propeller toward the temple of fame. Have faith in yourself, and all me, will have faith in you.
But as for me, I have to lie awake o'nights longing and hoping for inspirations that oft-times are slow to come. But when they do come, what
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