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Date:         Mon, 18 Apr 1994 16:29:51 JST
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Sender:       WRITERS <WRITERS@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
From:         Mike Barker <barker@AEGIS.OR.JP>
Subject:      QOTD: Giving help...

"I remember asking him once how he could be so generous.  Every theory
about writing, every trick he'd discovered, he was willing to share.
Wasn't he worried about revealing trade secrets?  Wasn't his advice to
other writers the same as aiding and abetting his professional
competition?  He seemed amused by the question.  "So what if someone
else does well?  That doesn't affect me or my work."  He felt that
writing about his own experiences forced him to crystallize his thoughts
and allowed him new insights that were invaluable to him."

Telling Lies for Fun and Profit by Lawrence Block (copyright 1981)
From the Introduction by Sue Grafton (copyright 1994)
William Morrow and Co.
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