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"There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough."
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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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"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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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."
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"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
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"An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself."
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"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal."
Literature
"Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing."
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"I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it."
Body
"Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life."
Life
"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form."
Fiction
"In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75."
Literature
"All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one."
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"When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing."
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