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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong."
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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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"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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"No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table."
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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."
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"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."
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"I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed."
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"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers."
People
"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."
Life
"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."
Love
"I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!"
Dream
"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
Education
"If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level."
Trust
"What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!"
Death
"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."
People
"Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit."
Being
"It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing."
Life
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