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- "A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good ..."
- "Adorned with cape, with tricorn, saintly soul singing in librarian tones an enameled song that ..."
- "All literature is gossip. "
- "Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system ..."
- "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. "
- "Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a ..."
- "Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard ..."
- "Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't ..."
- "Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other ..."
- "I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. "
- "I can see every monster as they come in. "
- "I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like ..."
- "I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were ..."
- "Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. "
- "Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. "
- "Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire. "
- "Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private ..."
- "She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged ..."
- "That's not writing, that's typing. "
- "The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. "
- "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner ..."
