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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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels.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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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now."
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"How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me."
Books
"He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played."
Work
"There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work."
Reading
"What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?"
Work
"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance."
Ignorance
"I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge."
Computer
"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power."
Power
"We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are."
Time
"Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law."
Justice
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