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So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

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In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

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I'd never been published when I was young.

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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

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I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

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I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

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I never worked in an office in my life.

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I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 28th, 1916

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