Books are for writing. Do not read any more books.
Everyone can write one little book, and it should be about himself.
But if you read books, you will try to write literature, and that is always a mistake.
It makes your work like other people's; it means we lose the sound of your voice.

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Published : 1977

Author : Quentin Crisp

Quentin's first novel was based on characters whom he had known during his life in London.
Written in 1952 it was not published until 1977.