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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
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Personal Development
"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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"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
Survival
"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
Help
"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
People
"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
Fun
"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
Philosophy
"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
Body
"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
History
"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
Ability
"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
Humanity
"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
Reading
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