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

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

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"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."

Sanford I. Weill, American Businessman

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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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"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."

A. R. Ammons, American Poet

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job."

Harvey Milk, American Politician

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"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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

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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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"There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art."

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