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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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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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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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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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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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"If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them."
Man
"Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time."
Time
"Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers."
Genius
"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money."
Money
"What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love."
Love
"Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat."
Books
"A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure."
Cure
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."
Money
"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."
Art
"A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
People
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