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"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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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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"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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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
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"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
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"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."
Literature
"I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels."
Books
"Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer."
Choice
"Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title."
Writing
"I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer."
Identity
"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."
Being
"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."
Fear
"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
"A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader."
Money
"I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me."
Creativity
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