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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
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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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"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
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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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"There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
Books
"An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place."
Art
"How can you stop writing?"
Writing
"Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like."
Time
"Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were."
War
"I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading."
Reading
"Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture."
Being
"You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart."
People
"I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites."
Attitude
"The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college."
Being
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