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"Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."
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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
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"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"
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"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
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"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."
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"Hard writing makes easy reading."
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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"American corporations hate to give away money."
Money
"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."
Money
"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will."
Power
"I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson."
Thought
"Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote."
Life
"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."
Friendship
"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."
Business
"The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major."
Success
"To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way."
History
"Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice."
Character
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