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"I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's."
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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."
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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."
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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."
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"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
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"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."
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"Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith."
Faith
"Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down."
Press
"Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current."
Horror
"I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious."
Creativity
"I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie."
Movies
"I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural."
Horror
"I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's."
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"And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence."
Truth
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
Houses
"I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies."
Movies
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