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"When I read, I'm purely a reader."
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"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"
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"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
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"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."
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"From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library..."
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"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
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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."
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"If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe."
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"Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process."
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"Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way."
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"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
Age
"None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter."
Life
"I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside."
Work
"I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life."
Life
"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."
Family
"Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
Nature
"And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be."
Class
"When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it."
Will
"I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage."
Family
"The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest."
Marriage
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