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"I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual."
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"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
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"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."
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"Books, the children of the brain."
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"I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff."
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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."
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"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
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"Books are a finer world within the world."
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"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons."
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"I think women are excellent social critics."
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"The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals."
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"It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?"
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