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"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55."
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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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"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
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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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"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."
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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
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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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"I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence."
Life
"I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are."
Mind
"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55."
Reading
"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
Censorship
"I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper."
Time
"All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street."
Story
"I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations."
People
"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."
Time
"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
Books
"My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus."
People
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