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"By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films."
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."
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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
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"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."
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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
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"I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!"
Society
"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."
Ability
"I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!"
Character
"By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films."
Books
"As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book."
People
"Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state."
Technology
"I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness."
Consciousness
"I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese."
Society
"As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of."
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