A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and … - James M. Cain

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The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.

James M. Cain

A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter.

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Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

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If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".

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I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

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