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"The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more."
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"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."
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"What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes."
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"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
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"I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time... One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I've prayed this prayer thousands of times, and God has answered it in dramatic fashion countless times. The right book in the right hands at the right time can save a marriage, avert a mistake, demand a decision, plant a seed, conceive a dream, solve a problem, and prompt a prayer. That is why I write. And that's why, for me, a book sold is not a book sold; a book sold is a prayer answered. I don't know the name and situation of every reader, but God does, and that's all that matters."
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"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work."
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"Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts."
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"Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99."
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"Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back."
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"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
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"There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do."
History
"Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated."
Conversation
"It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively, that was merely an unintended side effect."
Irony
"There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person."
Science
"One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing."
Writing
"A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things."
Technology
"It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own."
Reflection
"Thoreau was an idiot."
Provocation
"Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious."
Biology
"In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available."
Students
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