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Writing is hard work. Even when you start with the raw ingredients – a mad family, a sense of humour, talent…it’s hard work. But you do get to sit around in silk pyjamas all day.

— Carole Morin Trivial and Profound (2013)

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God for all anyone knows could be Cary Grant.

Dead Glamorous (1996)

Lies are easy to believe in but the truth sounds false.

Lampshades (1991)

Irene the Slut sits on top of the television, the atmosphere of Russian vodka about her skin.

Dead Glamorous (1996)

I think about toilets a lot, and how awful it must be to be a toilet.

Thin White Girls (1984)

God isn’t in the details, He’s in the structure.

Spying on Strange Men (2013)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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