"I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."

Sanford I. Weill, American Businessman

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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job."

Harvey Milk, American Politician

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"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."

Tahir Shah, British Author

Reading, Observation, Isolation, Curiosity

"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."

Henry James, American Writer

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"It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it."

M. F. K. Fisher, American Writer

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"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself."

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"I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."

"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."

"All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job."

"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"

"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."

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"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

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"I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director."

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"It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon."

"I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it."

"The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years."

"In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself."

"There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown."

"I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays."