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"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."
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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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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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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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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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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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"But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection."
Employment
"I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do."
Time
"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."
Thought
"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
Reading
"I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book."
Writing
"I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell."
Writing
"I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all."
Science
"I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do."
Books
"Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it."
Travel
"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."
Books
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