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I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

I'm a pretty open book.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

I'm an open book.

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

Yeah, I'm an open book.

I'm willing to be an open book, to a point.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.