"I always wanted to write when I..." - Quote by Dave Barry
I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job that didn't involve any actual work.... I felt it would be fun to have a job like that where you could make stuff up and be irresponsible and get paid for it.
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“All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions in this book, these people are not responsible. In the end, there is only one person responsible for what I write, and that person, of course, is: Donald Trump.”
“Here's a man who was twice elected to the most powerful position on Earth despite needing a TelePrompTer to correctly identify what year it was.”
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“I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.”
“I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.”
“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”