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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."
"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."
"I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know."
"And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing."
Explore more quotes by Don Marquis
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
"A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country."
"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."
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