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"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."
"Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers."
"I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work."
"I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms."
"I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it."
"I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of."
"And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid."
"I'm just damseling mostly. I'm not very good with a gun."
"A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster."
