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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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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."

"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."

"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."

"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"

"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."

"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me."

"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."

"As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real."

"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day."

"Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time."

"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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