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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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"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."
Reading
"I am against the notion of style in itself."
Style
"Puns are a form of humor with words."
Humor
"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
Books
"For me, words are just words, nothing else."
Nothing
"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."
Identity
"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."
Literature
"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
Mind
"The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters."
Writing
"I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels."
Books
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