"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."

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"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

John Green, American Author

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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."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"Read in order to live."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

Mary Wortley Montagu, English Writer

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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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"Reading sparks writing."

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"Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back."

Time

"And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war."

War

"It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power."

Power

"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."

Democracy

"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."

Future

"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."

Change

"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."

Fact

"I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope."

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"It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something."

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"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today."

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