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"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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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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"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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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in."
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"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
Talk
"When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing."
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"People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly."
People
"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."
Family
"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
Literature
"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have."
Books
"The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves."
Care
"Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody."
Literature
"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."
Creativity
"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
Being
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