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Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

Novels are longer than life.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.