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"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."
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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."
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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."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"Read in order to live."
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
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"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."
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"Reading sparks writing."
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"When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience."
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"More than a half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful. Powells is another church to me, a paperback sort of heaven."
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"In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world."
Age
"I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates."
Self-Perception
"The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick."
Experience
"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production."
Dream
"If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?"
Blame
"Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe."
Nostalgia
"Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison."
Dream
"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us."
Art
"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."
Reading
"The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation."
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