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I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured.

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

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

Everybody writes a book too many.

Read much, but not many books.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.