"I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe."
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"Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry."
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"Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself."
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"Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore."
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"But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark corners. Some of them are balloons bobbing up through the sky: totally self-contained, and unreachable, but beautiful to watch. And some of them―the best ones―are doors."
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"Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones."
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"I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else."
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"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have"
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"If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it."
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"You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person."
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"The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing."
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"My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places."
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"Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind."
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"At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last."
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"In books, or work, or healthful play."
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"I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When I'm writing, or in my daily life, I just think of the work. I love to tell a story, but I might work with a story to make it the best I can without thinking of how many people will read it or if it will influence anybody."
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"I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark; there's no redemption there."
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"I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes."
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"I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something."
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"A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes."
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