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"Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not."
"My life transformed by making myself a reader."
"When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling."
"Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering."
"Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious. There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived in act and circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as if it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own."
"I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much."
"Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread."
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