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I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This ...more

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Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

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Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but death and taxes. But that’s n...more

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When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds to...more

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The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

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Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.

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There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.

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The things of the world fell by the wayside . . . but literature was eternal.

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Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the pl...more

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Good books are for consideration after, too.

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Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

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He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that ...more

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If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to h...more

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If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to h...more