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"Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?"
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."
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"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
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"I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian."
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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."
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"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."
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"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
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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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"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."
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"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
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"My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?"
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"The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them."
People
"I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught."
People
"Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books."
Change
"Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either."
Creativity
"Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?"
Reading
"I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins."
Man
"If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do."
Dream
"I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read."
Friendship
"I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre."
Truth
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