The half hour between wakin... by Walter Scott, a Scottish Novelist

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“The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.”

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Name: Walter Scott

Nationality: Scottish

Date of Birth: Aug 14, 1771

Date of Death: Sep 21, 1832

Profession: Novelist

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