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"I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along."
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"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."
"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."
"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."
"A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it."
"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."
"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."
"I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy."
"I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them."
"Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7."
"I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it."
"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."
"There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority."
"Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter."
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