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"It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something."
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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
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"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."
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"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."
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"With a book he was regardless of time."
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"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
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"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."
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"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
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"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."
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"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."
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"I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope."
Hope
"Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately."
Freedom
"I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here."
Transportation
"Southern California, where the American Dream came too true."
Dream
"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."
Future
"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."
Democracy
"And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war."
War
"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
Change
"We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers."
Money
"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."
Money
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