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"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
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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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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
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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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"My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong."
Hate
"People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not."
People
"If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object."
Computer
"The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything."
Computer
"For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing."
Internet
"Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians."
Jazz
"The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive."
Computer
"In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures."
Guitar
"I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?"
Success
"In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator."
Computer
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