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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
"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."
"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
"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!"
"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."
"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
"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."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that."
"Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years."
"He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited."
"Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years."
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