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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books… Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I also read modern novels – I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

There’s more fiction in my life than in books, so I don’t bother with them.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion , publicity.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

I’ve been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

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