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"I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres."
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"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."
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"It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too."Are you, Joe?"Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!"
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"I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does."
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"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
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"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."
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"Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost."
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"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."
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"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"
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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."
Pleasure
"I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me nothing is forever. No matter how bad or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level."
Perspective
"I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up."
Character
"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."
Learning
"Men didn't respect beauty...they used it."
Society
"Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward."
Self
"Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?"
Humor
"My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life."
Life
"Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters."
Family
"And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking."
Time
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