"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."

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"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."

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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"With a book he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Books, Time, Passion, Escape

"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Reading, Knowledge, Books, Curiosity

"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reading, Joy, Books, Passion

"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Reading, Impact, Culture, Imagination

"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."

Stephen King, American Author

Reading, Time, Distraction, Television

"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."

Stephen King, American Author

Reading, Wisdom, Inspirational, Future

"A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Reading, Books, Change, Perspective

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Reading, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

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"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."

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"It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."

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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

"With a book he was regardless of time."

"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."

"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."

"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."

"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."

"A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it."

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good."

"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."

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"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."

"It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."

"A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do."