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"I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say."
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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
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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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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."
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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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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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"I never get involved with the ladies I work with."
Work
"Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!"
Time
"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."
Success
"If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it."
Success
"When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected."
Talent
"Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula."
Film
"To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked."
Music
"You can't leave civilization behind entirely."
Civilization
"I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage."
Being
"I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy."
Medical
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