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“Now, you may ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, Stephen, if you don’t like books, why did you write one?” You just asked yourself a trick question. I didn’t write it. I dictated it. I shouted it into a tape recorder over the Columbus Day weekend, then handed it to my agent and said, “Sell this.” He’s the one who turned it into a book. It’s his funeral.

But I get your “drift.” Why even dictate?

Why, like a lot of other dictators, there is one man’s opinion I value above all others. Mine.

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