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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so...  
Adorned with cape, with tricorn, saintly soul singing in librarian ton...  
All literature is gossip.  
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after y...  
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.  
Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small t...  
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard an...  
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly...  
Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome ...  
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 precise...  
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those ...  
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.   Age
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 Asta...  
Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, a...  
She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a...  
That's not writing, that's typing.  
The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dresse...  
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 th...  
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.  
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.  
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is i...  
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting d...  
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between goo...