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"Libraries are where it all begins."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."
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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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"One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters."
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"We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading."
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"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe."
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"Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic."
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"I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers."
People
"There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry."
Reading
"I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding."
Poetry
"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."
Life
"I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step."
Writing
"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."
Love
"I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!"
Dream
"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely."
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"Libraries are where it all begins."
Literature
"The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings."
Time
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