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If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

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When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time.

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I'm not asking you to come reverently or unquestioningly; I'm not asking you to be politically correct or cast aside your sense of humor (please God y...more

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I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed.