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"We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage."
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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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"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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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Outside books, we avoid colorful characters."
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"I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."
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"We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage."
Books
"In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn."
Politics
"I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world."
Opportunity
"Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials."
Being
"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
Time
"If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside."
Writing
"The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work."
Work
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