“Beauty and the devil are the same thing.”– Robert Mapplethorpe Related Quotes “Someone asked me, ‘How do you write a book?’ I said, ‘I live with a pen in one hand.”— Carla H. Krueger “One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”— Mark Twain “When Manya read, there was no waking her from her absorption; she heard nothing. A whole household might plan to tease and make a noise like all the zoos let loose with tin cans to play with and yet Manya wouldn’t hear till her book was done. That was concentration and it was a joyful gift to have seized from the lucky-bag of life.”— Eleanor Doorly