One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter

Louis L'Amour
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One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, Daddy, why are you writing so fast? And I replied, Because I want to see how the story turns out! ✨ Louis L'Amour (2017). Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1: Unfinished Manuscripts, Mysterious Stories, and Lost Notes from One of the World's Most Popular Novelists, p.25, Bantam
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