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Patricia Highsmith on Writing

1921–1995 United States

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The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length of time it takes to write a book, the publishers and the readers can and will follow.

Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (1966)

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