“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

Also, here is a green toothbrush tied in a ribbon. It expresses my feelings inadequately.”

Source: We Were Liars

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American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenag… 1967

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Green grow the rashes, O;
Green grow the rashes, O;
The sweetest hours that e'er I spend
Are spent among the lasses, O.”

Robert Burns Green Grow the Rashes

Green Grow the Rashes, O, chorus (1787)

“My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.”

Barbara Pym book Excellent Women

Source: Excellent Women

“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."

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Michael Connelly (1956) Novelist, journalist

“Lazy technology: the electric toothbrush—that always made me laugh. The electric toothbrush—what, is brushing your teeth too strenuous an exercise? For some people? You got people goin' [imitates fast, strenuous brushing of teeth]. "Man, I am really feeling the burn here. Wish this thing had a motor on it." Why don't you just have electric deodorant?”

Tim Hawkins (1968) Christian comedian, songwriter, and singer

imitates use of electric deodorant <br class="br">Available on YouTube as " Tim Hawkins on Products https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MdVx6UYpHg" (uploaded 27 August 2007). <br class="br">Full Range of Motion (2006)