The key to understanding my writing career is realizing that I’ve written for the Atlantic and the Paris Review without ever reading them
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Replying to @LucyStag @MUGGER1955
Indeed. Like my dad used to say, "I've never read a book in my life!" Wasn't true, but he liked saying it
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Replying to @MoustacheClubUS @MUGGER1955
Though this tweet would make a fantastic book opening.
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Replying to @LucyStag @MUGGER1955
"I can assure you, readers, that I haven't even read this sentence"
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Lawrence Sterne wrote something like "And I shall read no book but my own, for as long as I live" which was also quite good
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