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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
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"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
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"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write 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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"Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs."
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"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."
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"Next, in importance to books are their titles."
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"A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books."
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"Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it."
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"I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
Reading
"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
Help
"I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now."
Poetry
"When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man."
Poetry
"And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping."
Art
"I don't think of myself all the time."
Time
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
People
"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."
Poetry
"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
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