"What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Reading, Writer, Writing

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"What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other."

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"From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library..."

Alice Hoffman, American Author

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"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

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"Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process."

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"Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way."

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"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

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"It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them, but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?"

Lewis Carroll, English Author

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"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."

Beginning

"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."

Nation

"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."

Writing

"Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer."

Choice

"I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer."

Identity

"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."

Reading

"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."

Being

"I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me."

Politics

"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."

Mind

"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."

Fear