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I am not in the business of suppressing books.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.

When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too.

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.