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“The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.”

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The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

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When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

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It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong…

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“Stay a dreamer, and you'll never have your dream; get down in the nitty-gritty, and when you get your dream you see what horseshit…

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“Cat Rambo: Where do you think the perennial debate between what is literary fiction and what is genre is sited? Norman Spinrad: I think…

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Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

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“You can't make a revolutionary omelet without breaking heads.”

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I never learned to read music.

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I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

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There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

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I write in American slang.

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I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

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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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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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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.”

Christopher K. Krebs

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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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