Stanley Ellin quotes
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“No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.”
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“The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature”
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“The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.”
-- Stanley Ellin
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press
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“You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.”
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Source : "Who is Abdullah Ocalan?" by Beat Witschi, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2005.
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“I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.”
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