"These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything."

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"These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything."

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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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"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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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Joy, Books, Imagination

"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

James Madison, American President

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"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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"Explorers have to be ready to die lost."

Russell Hoban, American Novelist

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"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

Elizabeth Hardwick, American Critic

Reading, Experience, Knowledge, Passion

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Reading, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

Reading, Books, Comfort, Companionship, Learning

"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."

Stephen King, American Author

Reading, Happiness, Today, Wisdom

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

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

"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."

"Explorers have to be ready to die lost."

"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

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

"Books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life."

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"I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell."

"But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction."

"Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it."

"I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things."

"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

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