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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.