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"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."
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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."
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"It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one."

"And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have."

"Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States."

"I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person."

"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me."

"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."

"If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one."
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