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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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"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
Poetry
"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
Money
"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
Control
"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
Happiness
"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality."
Quality
"I would rather start a family than finish one."
Family
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Earth
"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."
Art
"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves."
Reading
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