"My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying."

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Twelve famous authors talk about writing.
"My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying."
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