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"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."
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"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
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"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."
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"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."
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"One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing."
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"It is the most fun I'm ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there's nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it. It's the greatest peace when I'm in a scene, and it's just me and the character, that's it, that's where I want to live my life."
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"The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror."
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"Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write."
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"Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind."
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"There is no great writing, only great rewriting."
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"Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool."
Being
"I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building."
Building
"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
Poet
"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
Dream
"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."
Present
"I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman."
Writing
"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."
Progress
"Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny."
Destiny
"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard."
Work
"We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born."
Education
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