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Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

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She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not ...more

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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

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Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams

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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

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It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-one fan.” The minute you start to write all those p...more

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Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written.

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Without story books is like a person with no soul.

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If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

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A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't ca...more

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If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the...more

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You need to take out the stuff that’s just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!

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And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear befor...more

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.