"It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections."

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"It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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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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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

James Madison, American President

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"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."

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"Explorers have to be ready to die lost."

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Elizabeth Hardwick, American Critic

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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

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"Books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life."

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Stephen King, American Author

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"The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire."

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"Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in."

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"I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image."

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"Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath."

Time

"It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well."

Time

"That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution."

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"As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place."

War

"I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude."

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"I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it."

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"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."

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