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"Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity."
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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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"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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"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books..."
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"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."
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"There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."
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"I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you."
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"I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future."
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"I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious."
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"I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago."
Time
"I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker."
Life
"I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that."
Film
"The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me."
Economics
"I never pursued a career relentlessly."
Career
"Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity."
Literature
"I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy."
Home
"It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all."
Acting
"I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them."
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"Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots."
Work
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