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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
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"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
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"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
Science
"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
Being
"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
Books
"When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware."
Language
"Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus."
Education
"When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans."
Emotional
"There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person."
Science
"Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind."
Family
"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."
People
"I used to not back down from a challenge."
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