"I was a precocious reader."

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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."

John Green, American Author

Reading, Joy, Novel, Emotion

"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."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Reading, Writing, Meaning, Interpretation

"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."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

Reading, Focus, Presence, Learning

"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Reading, Woman

"Read in order to live."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Reading, Order

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

Mary Wortley Montagu, English Writer

Reading, Entertainment, Pleasure

"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Reading, Happiness, Today, Wisdom, Truth

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

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"Reading sparks writing."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Reading, Writing, Inspirational, Books

"When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Reading, Happiness, Truth, Wisdom, Power

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"I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces."

Being

"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."

Age

"The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them."

Technology

"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."

Science

"I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal."

Heroism

"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."

Design

"I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English."

Work

"I never learned to read music."

Music

"I write in American slang."

Media

"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."

Literature