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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"
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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
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"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."
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"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."
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"With a book he was regardless of time."
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"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
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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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"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."
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"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time."
Time
"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
Reading
"One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way."
Will
"I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too."
Living
"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."
Want
"The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with."
Being
"I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy."
Clarity
"We simply have not kept in touch with poetry."
Poetry
"I do a lot of readings."
Reading
"I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme."
Television
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