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"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
"I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."
"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
"A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly."
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"If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it."
"This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely."
"I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it."
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I."
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