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"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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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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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Outside books, we avoid colorful characters."
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"I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."
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"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
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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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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly."
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"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."
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"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."
Nation
"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."
Writing
"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."
Reading
"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."
Being
"I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me."
Politics
"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
Mind
"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."
Fear
"Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title."
Writing
"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."
God
"I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels."
Books
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