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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
- Gush
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never been published when I was young.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never worked in an office in my life.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020