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"I rarely read or buy a book because of a review."
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"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."
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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."
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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
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"Reading books exposes us to the consistency and uniqueness of being human. Book reading is an investigatory process. We read books in order to encounter the orchestrated words that describe emotions and observations that we too have experienced but are unable to glean the right alignment of words that fully embody the resonance that we seek."
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"The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself."
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"With a book he was regardless of time."
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"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."
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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
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"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
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"Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works."
Writing
"Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints."
Writing
"The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it."
War
"There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why."
Writing
"Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger."
Kids
"I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence."
Existence
"I rarely read or buy a book because of a review."
Reading
"I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that."
People
"Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast."
Society
"I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best."
Experience
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