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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
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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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"I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast."
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"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
Reading
"I never worked in an office in my life."
Life
"As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time."
Time
"But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection."
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"In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you."
Fact
"A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment."
Environment
"I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet."
Movies
"This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late."
Life
"There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was."
Influence
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