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"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
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"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."
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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
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"Books-oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"The proper study of mankind is books."
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"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
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"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
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"Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind."
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"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
Censorship
"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55."
Reading
"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
Books
"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."
Time
"I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper."
Time
"My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus."
People
"I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations."
People
"All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street."
Story
"I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are."
Mind
"I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence."
Life
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