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"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
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"With a book he was regardless of time."
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"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
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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."
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"A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it."
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"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."
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"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."
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"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."
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"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."
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"I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet."
Movies
"In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you."
Fact
"But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction."
Science
"It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance."
Office
"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
Reading
"I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book."
Writing
"Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it."
Travel
"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."
Beginning
"I never worked in an office in my life."
Life
"I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things."
Writing
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