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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.
We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.
It wasn't that I left acting; it's just that I put it aside while I set about becoming a comic.
