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- Nov 07, 2020
Book Quotes
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a best-selling book, and if you don't believe me, you can come into my basement; I'll show you every copy.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a whole phone book of fallibility about myself.
- Columns
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- Nov 07, 2020
A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
- Nov 07, 2020
While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.
- Devoured
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- Nov 07, 2020