"My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah."
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"The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)"
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"It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book."
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"Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs."
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"The author: an imaginary person who writes real books."
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"In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty."
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"I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself."
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"There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last"
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"Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco."
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"A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse."
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"My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet."
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"Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve."
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"Books are like eggs -- best when fresh."
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"There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time."
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"Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings."
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"I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it."
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"This book is dedicated to the rule breakers, the troublemakers, and the revolutionaries. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite."
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"It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul."
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"History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it."
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"The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather."
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