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My mouth had written a lot of checks tonight, and now my ass had to cash them.
“We are all pretending to be something we are not, and some of us are better at it than others.”
― The Spy Coast
― The Spy Coast
“The beginning novelist who has the gift for inhabiting other lives has perhaps the best chance for success.”
― John Gardner on Writing: On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction
― John Gardner on Writing: On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction
“she covered her ears with her hands, for fear that old custom of obeying other people’s plans for her should prevail yet again.”
― The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
― The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
“war is a business like any other, and like any business, it requires a healthy and continuous supply chain.”
― The Spy Coast
― The Spy Coast
“No one with a distorted view of reality can write good novels, because as we read we measure fictional worlds against the real world. Fiction elaborated out of attitudes we find childish or tiresome in life very soon becomes tiresome.”
― John Gardner on Writing: On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction
― John Gardner on Writing: On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction
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