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Vikram Seth Poet, Novelist
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"And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off."

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"Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!"

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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."

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Tom Hanks Actor, Producer
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"My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword."

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Ringo Starr Musician, Songwriter
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"I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room."

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