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Fred Allen on writing a novel

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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

   --Fred Allen (stage name of John Florence Sullivan) (1894-1956)

18 April 2008 in American, Books, literature, writing, language |

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