"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."

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"With a book he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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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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Stephen King, American Author

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Dean Koontz, American Author

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Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell."

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"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."

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"The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art."

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"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."

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"I continued to protect him with my silence."

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"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."

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"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."

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"I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?"

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"If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life."

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"For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously."

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