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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

Reading, Writing, Meaning, Interpretation

"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

Reading, Entertainment, Pleasure

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Reading, Happiness, Today, Wisdom, Truth

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

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"Reading sparks writing."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Reading, Writing, Inspirational, Books

"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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"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."

"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."

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

"Read in order to live."

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

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

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

"Reading sparks writing."

"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."

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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."

"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."

"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."

"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."

"I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."

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"My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life."

"Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered."