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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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"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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"I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece."
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"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
Nothing
"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
Knowledge
"To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived."
Art
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Truth
"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after."
Writing
"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
Imagination
"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
Time
"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
Writing
"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
Nature
"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
Writing
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