"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon."

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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

Stephen King, American Author

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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

Sue Grafton, American Novelist

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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

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"These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important."

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"I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself."

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"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."

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"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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"'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves."

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"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!"

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"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."

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"Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around."

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"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."

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"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."

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