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Gore Vidal

"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions." — Gore Vidal
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Norman Mailer

"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing." — Norman Mailer
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"I haven't always done things this way. It's the nature of the two books. They have been so consuming that I end up living inside them." — Caleb Carr
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Madeleine L'Engle

"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate." — Madeleine L'Engle
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William Goldman

"One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print." — William Goldman
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Truman Capote

"Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe." — Truman Capote
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Saul Bellow

"We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next." — Saul Bellow
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"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it." — Toni Morrison
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"How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me." — William Gaddis
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"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here." — Spike Lee
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Gore Vidal

"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either." — Gore Vidal
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"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it." — William Styron
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"Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever." — William Styron
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"There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough." — Irwin Shaw
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Truman Capote

"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it." — Truman Capote
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"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it." — Herman Melville
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