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"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now."
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"I don't sign contracts for my books."
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"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."
Being
"The downtrodden are the great creators of slang."
Lifestyle
"Every dogma has its day."
Politics
"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."
Art
"A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual."
Writing
"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
Mistake
"Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy."
People
"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."
Age
"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."
Money
"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
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