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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

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She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

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I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

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A really good detective never gets married.

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The more you reason the less you create.

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I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 23rd, 1888

Died: March 26th, 1959

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