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"I will say I am the sum of my books."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."
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"I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years."
"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
"That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do."
"Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise."
"I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."
"The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next."
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