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"A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain."
Death
"The language of my books has shaped me as a man."
Books
"I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else."
Movies
"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."
Work
"People who are powerless make an open theater of violence."
People
"There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it."
Technology
"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
Work
"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."
Society
"Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted."
Man
"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
Time
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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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Personal Development
"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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Personal Development
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
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Personal Development
"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."
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Personal Development
"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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