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- We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.
- If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.
- If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
- I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
- The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really…
- When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and…
- People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So…
- If there's a book that you want to read,but hasn't been written yet,then you must write it.
- If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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