"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."

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"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."

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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."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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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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Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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David Mitchell, British Novelist

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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."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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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."

David Foster Wallace, American 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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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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."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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Stephen King, American Author

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"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."

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"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."

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"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

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"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."

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