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"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me."
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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."
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"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
"I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life."
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
"One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me."
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."
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