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You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

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I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before th...more

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Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

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The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God's name w...more

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Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concer...more

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Words have weight.

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A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

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...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took ...more

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A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

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Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell...more

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Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

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If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

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Without story books is like a person with no soul.

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A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.