"I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!"

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"I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!"

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

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Reading, Woman

"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

Reading, Happiness, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"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."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Reading, Wood

"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."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Reading, Questions, Variety, Writing

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

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Reading, Tea

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

Stephen King, American Author

Reading, Time, Distraction, Television

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

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

Reading, Knowledge, Guidance, Intuition

"Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved."

Thorne Smith, American Writer

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"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."

Roger McGough, British Poet

Reading, Poetry, Father, Soul, People

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"My success is not who I am."

Success

"I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am."

Success

"Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk."

Friendship

"Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me."

Success

"I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired."

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"It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me."

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"With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

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

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

"Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved."

"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."

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"My success is not who I am."

"I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am."

"I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw."

"Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up."

"People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile."

"Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk."

"Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me."

"I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired."

"It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me."

"With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am."