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I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

I have always advised men to read.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.