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It is the editor's interest to insert what the author's judgment had rejected; and care is taken to intersperse these additions, so that scarce any book can be bought without purchasing something unworthy of the author.
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    Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it's a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn the page, the need to keep going, even if it's hard, because someone's in trouble and you have to know how it's all going to end... that's a very real drive. And it forces you to learn new words, to think new thoughts, to keep going. To discover that reading per se is pleasurable. Once you learn that, you're on the road to reading everything. And reading is key. There were noises made briefly, a few years ago, about the idea that we were living in a post-literate world, in which the ability to make sense out of written words was somehow redundant, but those days are gone: words are more important than they ever were: we navigate the world with words, and as the world slips onto the web, we need to follow, to communicate and to comprehend what we are reading. People who cannot understand each other cannot exchange ideas, cannot communicate, and translation programs only go so far.
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      I was never told what to read, and nobody ever gave me anything to read. You know the way there are certain books that everybody reads while they're growing up?So what I do is nights when I've got nothing else to do I go to the Pickwick bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard. And I just open books at random or when I come to a page or a paragraph I like, I buy that book. So last night I bought this one. Is that wrong?
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