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Good People Don't Spend Their Time Being Good. Good People Want To Spend Their Time Mowing The Lawn And Playing With The Dog. But Bad People Spend All Their Time Being Bad. It Is All They Think About.

I Expect That My Readers Have Been To Europe, I Expect Them To Have Some Feeling For A Foreign Language, I Expect Them To Have Read Books - There Are A Lot Of People Like That! That's My Audience.

Once You Have Your Characters, They Tell You What To Write, You Don't Tell Them.

You Write A Lot Of Books; You Hope You Get Better.

Politicians Were Like Talking Dogs In A Circus: The Fact That They Existed Was Uncommonly Interesting, But No Sane Person Would Actually Believe What They Said