"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."

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"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."

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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

Reading, Escape, Story, Reality

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Reading, Read, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"With a book he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Books, Time, Passion, Escape

"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

Reading, Knowledge, Books, Curiosity

"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

Reading, Joy, Books, Passion

"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

Reading, Impact, Culture, Imagination

"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."

Stephen King, American Author

Reading, Time, Distraction, Television

"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."

Stephen King, American Author

Reading, Wisdom, Inspirational, Future

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"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."

History

"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."

Society

"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."

Government

"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."

Autonomy

"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."

Peace

"Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story."

Home

"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."

Money

"Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred."

Winning

"There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see."

Society

"God did not intend religion to be an exercise club."

Religion