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Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.
Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.
Approximate author period: c. 1976 AD · modern
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- Nora Ephron
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- Approximate author period: c. 1976 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1941 to 2012; Wikidata Q214677, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214677 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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