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Alexandra Ripley: I really don't...

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I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Alexandra Ripley, (Jan 8 1934-2004), US novelist; She was chosen by Margaret Mitchell' s estate, 1988 to write the sequel to Gone with the Wind; called Scarlett, 1991.


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