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"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
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"Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to 'cleaning' as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings " and anyway, she didn't need to know her mark's entire pedigree or life's story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read " on those rare occasions " her books were always dog-eared from the back."
"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."
"I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying."
"Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground."
"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."
"In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds."
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"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
"If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time."
"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."
"I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter."
"If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
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