“She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.”

— Christopher Moore, book Bloodsucking Fiends

Source: Bloodsucking Fiends

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American writer of comic fantasy 1957

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