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I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.


Paul Theroux


#cookies #disks #great #greatest #habits

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.


Paul Theroux


#books #constantly #heard #i #i think

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.


Paul Theroux


#bed #book #changed #congenial #corporate

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.


Paul Theroux


#books #finding #four #great #i

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.


Paul Theroux


#lot #people #read #threatened #who

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.


Paul Theroux


#another #books #call #central #corps

I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a bit of it. And I'd seen the films.


David Thewlis


#bit #book #books #films #first

I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.


Henry Thomas


#cowboy #drive #first #horses #i

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.


Helen Thomas


#american people #belong #books #covering #every

I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.


Marlo Thomas


#balancing #blows #books #career #cushion






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