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Book: The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959
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  1. Raymond Chandler _ The Raymond Chandler Papers:

    Los jóvenes que quieren que uno les enseñe a escribir no hacen lo que hago yo {tachar, corregir, reescribir}. Esperan que todo lo que escriben sea publicado tal cual. No están dispuestos a sacrificar nada para aprender el oficio. No les entra en la cabeza que lo que uno quiere hacer y lo que puede hacer son cosas completamente distintas."
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  2. Raymond Chandler _ The Raymond Chandler Papers:

    Preoccupation with style will not produce it. No amount of editing and polishing will have any appreciable effect on the flavor of how a man writes. It is a product of the quality of his emotion and perception; it is the ability to transfer these to paper which makes him a writer, in contrast to the great number of people who have just as good emotions and just as keen perceptions, but cannot come within a googol of miles of putting them on paper.
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  3. Raymond Chandler _ The Raymond Chandler Papers:

    A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.
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  4. Raymond Chandler _ The Raymond Chandler Papers:

    That's the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn't just walk off the mound and weep.
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