"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book."

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Source : "Writers on Writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.

Mickey Spillane

“When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.”
“I throw just as hard as ever - it just takes twice as long to get there.”
“You're driving with your eyes closed.”
“The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car”
“If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.”
“When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.”
“If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.”
“A high-ranking Syrian official in DC laughed when he heard I was reading Michel Aflaq and writing this book. He said, "Let me tell you something. There are no Baathists, no one believes this stuff, this is stuff you read in school because it's assigned to you. Maybe someone believed it, but no one really believes it." And I thought that was really interesting to hear, because the ideology of Baathism was presented so often to Americans as the core of what's wrong.”

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