You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience...
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Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggl...
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For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to ...
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[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels, British novels, foreign novels in translation, b...
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I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.
