"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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"With a book he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."

Stephen King, American Author

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"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."

Stephen King, American Author

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"A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."

Beginning

"I think all writing is done through memory."

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

Writing

"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."

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"I am a writer of fragments."

Writing

"Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me."

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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 wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."

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"I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels."

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"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."

God