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"Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
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"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."
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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."
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"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
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"I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?"
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today."
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"I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you."
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"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
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"No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field."
Crime
"Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own."
Storytelling
"He had become the sky around the sun " alive, but not really there."
Existentialism
"I'll be your friend until you find a better one."
Friendship
"It's much harder to twist the charitable arm of a lottery winner compared to that of a man at his lowest ebb. It sounds like the wrong way round at first, but when you really put your nut to it, people are more frightened of losing the big shit than of having fuck all to begin with and losing a bit of that."
Society
"I have a very addictive personality. If it isn't women, it's money. If it isn't money, it's speeding. And if it isn't speeding, it's women. I also like expensive video consoles where I can punch, kick, screw, shoot and drive legally all night anywhere I fucking well want to."
Addiction
"I'm much more than a writer " I'm someone who puts different words together in an interesting way."
Writing
"Life isn't over until you're dead. Another ultra-positive, ultra-motivational tweet to improve your day. You're welcome."
Optimism
"Prayer is better than pills."
Healing
"Every book contains a secret " even the writer doesn't always know what it is."
Literature
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