In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
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Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.Len Deighton
I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.
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Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.
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I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.
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I wrote my first books the way people would write science fiction, because they gave me much more latitude to invent situations.
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The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
Paul Muldoon
Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.
Tim Russert