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"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."
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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."
"We encounter great souls by reading great books."
"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."
"If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything."
"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"
"I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain."
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"In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine."
"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."
"I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work."
"American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why."
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