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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off…
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to…
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:…
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on…
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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated…
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the…
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on…
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You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents…
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The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.
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Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should…
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Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow…
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a…
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Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
— John Thomas Sladek
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The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
— Walter Jon Williams
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There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise…
— Nicholson Baker
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
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