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"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
"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."
"I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!"
"Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read."
"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
"I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes."
Explore more quotes by Nicolas de Chamfort
"There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men."
"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."
"Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever."
"Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day."
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