"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
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"I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man."
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"I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes."
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"Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important."
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"When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write."
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"How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them."
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"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."
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"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another."
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"No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life."
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"With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands."
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"The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand."
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"I'm not really book-smart."
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"The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book."
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"A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course."
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"We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written."
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"A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man."
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"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."
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"Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors."
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"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."
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"Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books."
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