"I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself."

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"I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself."

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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."

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"The world of books is heavenly paradise."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Read good books to improve your life."

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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"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?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

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"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

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"We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring."

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"Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin."

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"There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell."

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"They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze."

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"We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month."

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