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I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
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I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
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I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.
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I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
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I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.
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I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.
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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
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I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
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I really love making people laugh.
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I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
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I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
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I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.
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