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Gore Vidal

"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."

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"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."

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"Books-oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."

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"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."

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Amber Hurdle

"Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book."

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"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."

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"It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make."

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"If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

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Amber Hurdle

"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."

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"A good deed never goes unpunished."
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