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Jack London Quotes about Writing

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

Jack London, Dale L. Walker, Jeanne Campbell Reesman (1999). “No Mentor But Myself: Jack London on Writers and Writing”, p.57, Stanford University Press

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.1475, Delphi Classics

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

Jack London (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.10, Jack London

Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.

Jack London, Dale L. Walker, Jeanne Campbell Reesman (1999). “No Mentor But Myself: Jack London on Writers and Writing”, p.57, Stanford University Press