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“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”
― Donna Tartt

“Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.”
― Richard Yates, A Good School

“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.”
― Thomas Mann

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King