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Luck In All Its Moods Had To Be Loved And Not Feared Bond Saw Luck As A Woman, To Be Softly Wooed Or Brutally Ravaged, Never Pandered To Or Pursued. But He Was Honest Enough To Admit That He Had Never Yet Been Made To Suffer By Cards Or By Women. One Day, And He Accepted The Fact He Would Be Brought To His Knees By Love Or By Luck.

If You Interrupt The Writing Of Fast Narrative With Too Much Introspection And Self-criticism, You Will Be Lucky If You Write 500 Words A Day And You Will Be Disgusted With Them Into The Bargain. By Following My Formula, You Write 2,000 Words A Day And You Aren’t Disgusted With Them Until The Book Is Finished, Which Will Be In About Six Weeks.

My Mental Hands Were Empty, And I Felt I Must Do Something As A Counterirritant Or Antibody To My Hysterical Alarm At Getting Married At The Age Of 43.

I Always Make It A Rule Never To Look Back. Otherwise, I'd Ask Myself How I Could Write Such Piffle And Live With Myself, Day After Day.

If I Wait For The Genius To Come, It Just Doesn't Arrive.