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"I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres."
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"When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like."

"Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish."

"I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me."

"Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery."

"To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down."

"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard."

"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."

"One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer."
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"Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other."


"I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up."
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