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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

I love John Irving’s stuff. It’s that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It’s really terrific.

You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

I’ve been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

Man is what he reads.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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