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Quotes from Afterword to The Dud Avocado — Elaine Dundy

1921–2008 United States

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If you write another book, I’ll divorce you.

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

I’ve been rereading your book. There’s love on every page.

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

He said, this was the first time in his experience that an unknown writer had complained about a book cover.

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

I thought, this title is mine, and it was.

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

You’ve got the one thing a writer needs: You’ve got your own voice. Now go.

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

When people ask me how autobiographical the book is I say, all the impulsive, outrageous things my heroine does, I did. All the sensible things she did, I made up.

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

I wondered if it was his admission of what I’d done that he had not.

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

From the Critic to the Author.

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

In 1964 Ken and I got divorced.

Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elaine Dundy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.