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- I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to…
- It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.
- The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake...
- The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When…
- If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get on the bus…
- I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is…
- I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at…
- I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
- My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
- I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to…
- I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and…
- But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe,…
- There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of…
- If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
- When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of…
- I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book…
- When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?'…
- Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write…
- What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering…
- The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such…
- Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?
- My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life…
- The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music…
- You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual…
- I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t…
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