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"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
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"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write 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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"Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
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"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."
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"Next, in importance to books are their titles."
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"A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books."
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"Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it."
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"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."
Nature
"If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely."
Work
"I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like."
Writing
"I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else."
Movies
"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."
Power
"People will always make comparisons."
People
"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."
Work
"One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language."
Truth
"I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version."
Future
"It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain."
People
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