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If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

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If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

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I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

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Those big-shot writers … could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

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I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.

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I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead...

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When I started the paperback market, there were only a few good writers, now the market's loaded... you don't know which one to take.

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I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

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Born: March 9, 1918
Died: July 17, 2006 (aged 88)
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