Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. (P. G. Wodehouse)

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

P. G. Wodehouse

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