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Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

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When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds to...more

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There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.

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The things of the world fell by the wayside . . . but literature was eternal.

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Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the pl...more

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A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength....more

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Good books are for consideration after, too.

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He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that ...more

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If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to h...more

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If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to h...more

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In a book, all would have gone according to plan... but life was so fucking untidy — what could you say for an existence where some of the most crucia...more

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You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

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...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took ...more

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A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.