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Novel Quotes by Daniel Handler
- I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like…
- Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.
- One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or…
- My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount…
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