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"We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading."
"Shakespeare shook his head and sunk his chin into his ruff, making him look more owl-like than ever. "I have written about other worlds often enough. I have said what I can say. There are many kinds of reality. This is but one kind."
"Pages entertain me more than pictures do."
"The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them."
"A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers."
"A book lives a new life every time it is read."
"The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows."
"I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future."
"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal."
"Each story provides a beginning, a middle and an end, the trick is, never seperate them through the chapters or you'll miss the meaning of the entire book."
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"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round."
"Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria."
"Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary."
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