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"I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics."
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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
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"Wondering leads to writing."
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"Writings are thoughts in a defined moment."
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"Every great writer is a great reader."
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"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"
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"Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing."
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"What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future."
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"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."
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"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
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"My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick."
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"Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book."
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"Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer."
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"Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo."
Past
"I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either."
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"Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics."
Writing
"I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there."
Nation
"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book."
Media
"Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture."
Money
"I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of."
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