"I was a precocious reader."

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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

Reading, Writing

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

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

Technology

"If it's not American, the French won't go see it."

Media

"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've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness."

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"When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money."

Money

"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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"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."

Explore more quotes by Norman Spinrad

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

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

"If it's not American, the French won't go see it."

"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."

"I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness."

"When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money."

"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."

"I write in American slang."

"I never learned to read music."

"If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter."