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For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.
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In any work that is truly creative, I believe, the writer cannot be omniscient in advance about the effects that he proposes to produce. The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
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As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to... The worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Born:
June 21, 1912
Died:
October 25, 1989
(aged 77)
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