"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Reading, Beginning, End

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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."

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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."

John Green, American Author

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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"Read in order to live."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

Mary Wortley Montagu, English Writer

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"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

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"Reading sparks writing."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"More than a half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful. Powells is another church to me, a paperback sort of heaven."

Donald Miller, American Author

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"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."

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"When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words."

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"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread."

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"No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking."

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"If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror."

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"A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader."

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