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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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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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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."
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"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."
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"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."
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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"Kindle, isn't it? the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books. "Oh, probably not all of them, Wesley said. "Huh? Why not? "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant. "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning! she said, and went off chortling."
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"Read a short story every day."
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"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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"I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now."
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"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
Reading
"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."
People
"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
"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
"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."
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"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."
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"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
Decision-Making
"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
Computer
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