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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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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."
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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
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"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"
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"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
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"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."
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"Hard writing makes easy reading."
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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it."
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"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."
Reality
"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."
Reading
"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."
Hope
"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
People
"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
Dream
"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."
Humor
"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
Decision-Making
"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."
Humor
"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs."
Movies
"I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing."
Movies
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