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"A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow."
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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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"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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"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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"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
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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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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
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"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."
Woman
"Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing."
Time
"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."
Now
"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."
Life
"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."
Nothing
"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
Life
"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."
Death
"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going."
Age
"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"
Life
"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
Communication
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