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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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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
"All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job."
"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."
"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"
"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."
"It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it."
"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."
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"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
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"There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant."
"It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one."
"It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life."
"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment."
"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."
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