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Douglas Sirk

"If I couldn't read, I couldn't live."

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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

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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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"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."

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

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

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"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

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"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."

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"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

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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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"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."

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"At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power."

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"A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do."

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"For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty."

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"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason."

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"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."

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"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."

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