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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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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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"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
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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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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."
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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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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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"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."
Work
"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
Movies
"Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there."
Truth
"America was and is the immigrant's dream."
Dream
"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."
Society
"In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic."
Technology
"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
Work
"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
Work
"May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan."
Action
"I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version."
Future
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