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"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping."
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping."
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"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have."
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"What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?"
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"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping."
Books
"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."
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"All autobiography is self-indulgent."
Reflection
"Women want love to be a novel, men a short story."
Love
"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."
Happiness
"When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person."
Writing
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