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"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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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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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"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."
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"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."
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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."
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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"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."
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"Read a short story every day."
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"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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Explore more quotes by Joyce Maynard
"The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art."
Art
"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."
Life
"The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn."
Parenting
"Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home."
Home
"For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously."
People
"Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful."
Experience
"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."
Age
"I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes."
Act
"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval."
Fear
"The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell."
Silence
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