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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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"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
Life
"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."
Time
"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
People
"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
Anger
"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."
Books
"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."
Friendship
"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
Dream
"Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away."
Poetry
"I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it."
Life
"I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman."
Writing
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