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Writing Quotes by John Mortimer
- The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
- It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.
- The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
- Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at…
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