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“For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...”

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk…

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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

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We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give…

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Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

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As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…

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“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you…

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We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny…

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I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon…

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The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

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We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

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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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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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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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It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

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I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

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Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

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“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

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