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"I was a precocious reader."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"
"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."
"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."
"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."
"It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)."
"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market."
"It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture."
"The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel."
"As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography."
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