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“I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.”
“Wahrscheinlich werde ich jede Nacht von dir trumen", sagte er. "Und wenn ich aufwache, wei ich, dass der beste Teil des Tages schon vorbei ist.""Das hast du irgendwo gelesen.""Hab ich nicht.”
“I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.”
“My bookcase is all yours."I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the world.”
“He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.”
“Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.”
“I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple i...”
“But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.”
“I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.”
“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
“We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by...”
“He rolled his eyes. "Fiction lies for the truth.”
“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that any human being would like.”
“It is the mess that readers love. The fact that sometimes the people who love us the most aren't people we're related to, but people who join our family later. The book acknowledges how difficult f...”
“Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and other lives through stories. Made-up stories. Fiction.”
“I don't write romance. Read it? Yes. Write it? No.”
“Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?”
“For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collec...”
“Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the ...”
“And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”
