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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

"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

Reading, Read

"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Reading, Thinking, Perspective, Learning

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

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Reading, Woman

"You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Reading, Read

"The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Reading, Books, Love, Gift, Knowledge

"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Reading, History, Thought, Reflection

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"Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it."

Car

"New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else."

Technology

"I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year."

Writing

"Lawyers are predators in grey worsted."

Law

"Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem."

Patience

"It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger."

Dying

"American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957."

Time

"Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of."

Poetry

"I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either."

Reading