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A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Bottle Cork Idea Just Like Liquid New New Idea Pops Shake Sort Then Until Write You

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I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Am Even Hack Much Novelist Political Thinker I Am

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I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.

~Christopher Buckley

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I am post-Catholic.

~Christopher Buckley

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I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

~Christopher Buckley

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It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Admired Always Author Meeting Tricky You

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My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Accident After Hospital Month Mother Ski Spent Swiss Terrible

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I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Life Maryland My Life Novelist Rest Story Tom Want Write

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If the question is, 'Do I wish I made thirty million dollars a year,' the answer is, 'You bet.' If the question is, 'Do I wish I could write like Tom Clancy,' the answer must remain, 'No.'

~Christopher Buckley

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I don't think I ever once heard Mum utter a religious or spiritual sentiment, a considerable feat considering that she was married for 57 years to one of the most prominent Catholics in the country.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Catholics Considerable Considering Country Ever Feat Heard Married Most Mum Once Prominent Religious Sentiment She Spiritual Think Utter Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 28th, 1952

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