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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Samuel Butler
Writing, Men, Years
Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4167, Delphi Classics

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Samuel Butler
Writing, Drained
Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

Samuel Butler
Writing, Cat, Men
"The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (Part VII: On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books)". Book edited by Henry Festing Jones, 1917.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

Samuel Butler
Book, Writing, Want

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