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"I don't take advances for my books."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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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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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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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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"I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family."
Family
"People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time."
Society
"Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist."
People
"Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society."
Society
"I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection."
Ambition
"Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball."
Appearance
"I don't sign contracts for my books."
Books
"The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape."
Being
"A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids."
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"Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change."
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