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“I did discover that if you're interested in low wages, a bookstore ranks below retail clothing sales, except the hours are worse.”
― Sue Grafton

“Bengalis are the world's greatest experts on things they know absolutely nothing about.”
― Sopan Deb, Keya Das's Second Act

“Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time.”
― Lydia Davis, Essays One

“It was all he could do not to laugh, the lives of the vast majority of authors being far more private than they likely wished. Maybe Stephen King or John Grisham got approached in the supermarket by a quavering person extending pen and paper, but for most writers, even reliably published and actually self-supporting writers, the privacy was thunderous.”
― Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot