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"I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their 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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"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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"My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it."
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"The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are."
Life
"I love winners when they cry, losers when they try."
Love
"I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories."
Illusion
"After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect."
Road
"I was quite a reader before I became a writer."
Writer
"Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer."
Hope
"When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please."
Life
"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."
American
"Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either."
Kids
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