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"I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres."
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"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."
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should."
"The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison."
"Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library. This book I had again and again perused with delight."
"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will."
"Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women."
"Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions."
"New York had saved him, in a very real way. It had pushed and prodded him with its impatient and sharp fingers, reminding him on a daily basis during that jittery first year that it didn't really give a goddamn whether he sank or swam. He liked its selfishness and its generosity and its propensity for flipping the bird to the rest of the world."
"Family's the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that's where the spine and heart come in."
"I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career."
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