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Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

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Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…

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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

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You’re not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

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A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

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I grew up reading science fiction.

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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

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