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"I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."
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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
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"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"
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"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
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"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."
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"Hard writing makes easy reading."
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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"I don't want to write, I'd rather draw."
Want
"All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy."
Fantasy
"There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here."
Horror
"I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window."
Direction
"It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much."
Work
"He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up."
Time
"I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin."
Argument
"I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do."
Love
"We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror."
Care
"I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan."
Reading
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