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It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the ...more

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How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I can imagine. Yet many auth...more

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Oh, is that my report, father?' said Mike, with a sort of sickly interest, much as a dog about to be washed might evince in his

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I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

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[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of pros...more

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Mac had many admirable qualities, but not tact. He was the sort of man who would have tried to cheer Napoleon up by talking about the Winter Sports at...more

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I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.

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...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.

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She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

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No sir," said Mr Molloy. "I'm mighty sorry I can't meet you in any way, but the fact is I'm all fixed up in Oil. Oil's my dish. I began in Oil and I'l...more

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Mr Wisdom,' said the girl who had led him into the presence.'Ah,' said Howard Saxby, and there was a pause of perhaps three minutes, during which his ...more

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One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time bein...more

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I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.

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[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, "What are my big scenes...more

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Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts