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"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon."
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"Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it."
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
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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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"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."
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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction."
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"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."
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"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
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"College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner."
College
"Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University."
Education
"Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around."
Life
"I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women."
Life
"It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live."
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"I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think."
Friendship
"I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!"
Writing
"I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know."
Creativity
"I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink."
Life
"Would you care to publish this? Sincerely, Robert B. Parker."
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