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"Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken."
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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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"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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"I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write."
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"After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy."
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"When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs."
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"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."
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"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of the truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly."
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"You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!."
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"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."
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"We do not write because we want to, we write because we have to."
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"A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone."
Loss
"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
Intellectual
"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."
Science
"The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds."
History
"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."
Creativity
"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
Art
"A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts."
Thought
"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."
Animals
"Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken."
Writing
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
Work
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