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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 can never get to sleep without a book.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Books are my weakness.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

I don't read books.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.

On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.