I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. (Agatha Christie)

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

Agatha Christie

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