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A Writer's Life Is So Hazardous That Anything He Does Is Bad For Him. Anything That Happens To Him Is Bad: Failure's Bad, Success Is Bad; Impoverishment Is Bad, Money Is Very, Very Bad. Nothing Good Can Happen... Except The Act Of Writing.

I Have Committed Many Sins In My Life. This Precise Sin-the Sin Against Poets-is Without Absolution.

Writing A Novel Is Like Driving A Car At Night. Sometimes You Run Over A Drunk Who's Lain Down And Fallen Asleep On The Warm Pavement. I Mean, Do You Keep Going, Or What?

I've Known Several Cases Of Writers Who Decide To Write About Something And They Research The Hell Out Of It And When They're Ready To Write, They Can't Move Because They Are So Burdened. I Start Writing. Whatever I Need Somehow Comes To Hand.

Leo Crowley, Harry [truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, Tells Congressmen The Theory...: 'if You Create Good Governments In Foreign Countries, Automatically You Will Have Better Markets For Ourselves.' With That Honeycunt Staring You In The Face, You'd Forget Your Grammar Too.