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"A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!"
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."
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"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."
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"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."
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"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."
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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
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"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."
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"A writer illuminates the lights of her heart so that everyone can see themselves in the mirror of her thoughts."
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"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."
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"Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby."
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"There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time."
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"A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!"
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"And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it."
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"Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers."
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"If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him."
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"The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs."
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"The Army was my bread and butter."
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