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Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days…
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
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We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and…
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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end…
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People who travel are always fugitives.
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Life and death do not wait for legal action.
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Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills,…
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
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Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want…
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That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough…
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That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about…
— Will Schwalbe
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Among other things, [books by Bruce Doyle III and Mike Hernacki] explain the importance of the "winning attitude" I have been urged…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids…
— Jon Scieszka
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When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.…
— Peter York
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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
— Daphne du Maurier
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There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
— William Hazlitt
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