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"I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."
"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
"I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had rules and could be understood; stories had been a way of learning about life without experiencing it, or perhaps of experiencing it as an eighteenth-century poisoner dealt with poisons, taking them in tiny doses, such that the poisoner could cope with ingesting things that would kill someone who was not inured to them. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it."
"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected."
"Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow."
"It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa."
"If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point."
"I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people."
"Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread."
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