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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or c...more

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For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

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A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enoug...more

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Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave.

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Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next wri...more

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It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone.