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Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is be...more

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We live for books.

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The visitor enters and says, "What a lot of books! Have you read them all?" ...The best answer is the one always used by Roberto Leydi: "And more, dea...more

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I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

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To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual worl...more

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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of b...more