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"Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
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"In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict."
Relationship
"My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about."
Books
"When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level."
Work
"So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot."
Work
"But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet."
Poetry
"In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures."
People
"I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important."
Challenge
"The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world."
Technology
"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth."
Heroism
"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."
Writing
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