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“It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love books, and that is all I really need to know. If they are friendly to me, then we are clearly soul mates.”

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I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,…

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“And she was funny and beautiful and she liked the same books, the same music, and she wanted everything I did, was in the…

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Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women…

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I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.

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“mostly I have found myself resisting their sadness when I have so much of my own.”

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You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's…

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Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that…

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We've all got flesh. I've just got a little more.

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In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.

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“We listen to NPR for the first two hours on the road, the strange comfort of bad news reported in reasonable tones,”

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I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen,…

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When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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