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You Can't Be Up The Reader's Ass, As Many A Writer I Think Is - Cute As Hell, Ingratiating As Hell. But That's Not Loving The Reader In The Right Way. That's Toadying To The Reader.

When It Comes To Flying, I Am A Nervous Passenger But A Confident Drinker And Valium-swallower.

No Novel Has Ever Changed Anything, As Far As I Can See. And The Great Satirists, Like Swift And Dickens, Tend To Write About Abuses And Injustices That Have Already Been Partially Corrected - You Write About It After It's Over.

Addictions Do Come In Handy Sometimes: At Least You Have To Get Out Of Bed For Them.

Don't Dumb Down; Always Write For Your Top Five Percent Of Readers.