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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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"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 books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
Truth
"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious."
Victory
"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."
Creativity
"The act of dying is one of the acts of life."
Life
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
Man
"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."
Power
"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."
Nature
"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
Man
"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
Reading
"Anger cannot be dishonest."
Anger
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