"And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer."
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"if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."
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"I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to be rich, you have to get a diploma, you have to work hard, otherwise you are useless, you are nothing but a pariah. And the book asks, 'Is it true? This is what my mom told me, but is it true?"
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"You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do. The book is much more important than the writer."
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"I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me."
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"For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience and the thing that you have to do is experience life instead of only reading about it. Reading is very important, but it's not enough. After reading, you have to take some decisions in your hands and move forward and be the human being that you are, and then going and meeting people and work."
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"Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures... When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories."
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"Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written."
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"Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may."
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"The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual."
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"Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book."
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"In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise."
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"There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever."
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"I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love."
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"There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist there's so much in just the marketing of a book, or even the time... the zeitgeist, the moment at which it comes out. There's a lot you can't control."
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"It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories."
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"When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it."
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"You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them."
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"I work just as much as I always worked. And I can't explain the fact that there have been a series of books coming rather regularly out of me. I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books."
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"When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts."
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