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"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
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"Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts."
"Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99."
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"The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more."
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