"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

Beginning, Ending, Pretty, Want

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"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

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"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."

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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

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"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

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"Everyone has to start somewhere. So get out there and start."

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"Everything started as nothing."

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"I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough."

Money

"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."

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