"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

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"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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

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"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."

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"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

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

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"Read in order to live."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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

Mary Wortley Montagu, English Writer

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

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Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

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"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."

Government

"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."

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"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."

Diversity

"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."

Peace

"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."

Being

"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."

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"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."

Autonomy

"I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised."

Thought

"The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art."

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"There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see."

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