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Adam Stevenson
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I have a life full of silliness and anecdote but not of mystery. Would love to know how I reminded that guy of his girlfriend though.
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I always read a challenge book in the summer. I’m very tempted by ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’.
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Thoughts on publishing
I wrote my first story when I was seven and never really stopped. I finished my first novel when I was twenty and knew from then that all I wanted to be in life was an author.
I wrote a lot after that. All sorts of novels, failed novels, short stories and articles. I wrote and I wrote and I wrote, and there were some successes. My first novel was rejected by all the best publishers, this was back Read more of this blog post »
I wrote a lot after that. All sorts of novels, failed novels, short stories and articles. I wrote and I wrote and I wrote, and there were some successes. My first novel was rejected by all the best publishers, this was back Read more of this blog post »
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| Muriel Spark is a writer who manages to write the novels that only Muriel Spark could write. I find them a little hit and miss but I always find them interesting and unique. How would I fair with Spark’s ventures into a notably hit and miss genre, sh ...more | |
“Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”
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“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
“Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.”
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“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.”
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