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"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
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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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"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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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."
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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."
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"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
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"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."
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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."
People
"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."
Reading
"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."
Dress
"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
Reading
"I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now."
Now
"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
Poet
"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
Computer
"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
Decision-Making
"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."
Poetry
"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."
People
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