He was drinking the adulation as greedily and unabashedly as it was being offered to him -- no-holds barred.
In the video alongside: Jeffrey Archer on how his books
became bestsellers
He started with the description of the arduous exercise that writing is. It began with the painfully long drafts and endless hours that create the magic. He briefly touched the dismal beginning -- just 200 copies of Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less were first published, and traced the path of his arrival at number one on The New York Times bestseller list. The facts were well-known. It was his way of presentation that made them amusing.
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