There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.
The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.
Writing a book is not a crime.