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The chief thing was to select a name totally different from those under which he had hitherto written: so that when he used the name, he would feel like a different person, and in consequence write from a somewhat different angle. I have been told - by men who do not write - that this is all fanciful. This only means that they don't understand.

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A somewhat short junior, with a broad, pleasant face and an enormous pair of spectacles

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If there is a Tchekov among my readers, I fervently hope that the effects of the Magnet wil be to turn him into a Bob Cherry.

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The business of a boys' author is not to consider political issues, but to entertain the readers, make them as happy as possible.

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Charles Hamilton

Charles Hamilton

Born: August 8, 1876
Died: December 24, 1961 (aged 85)
Bio: Charles Harold St. John Hamilton was an English writer, specializing in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters.
Known for:
  1. Old Soldiers Never Die (1933)
  2. Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School (1947)
  3. Old Soldier Sahib (1936)
  4. Bunter Does His Best (1954)

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