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"It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination."
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"Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I've never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey' nights while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman."
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"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better."
"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them."
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"People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough."
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"This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?"
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