"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."

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"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

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"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."

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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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"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."

A. R. Ammons, American Poet

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"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."

Heinz Guderian, German Soldier

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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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"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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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."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice."

Sam Levenson, American Author

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"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."

Work

"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."

Chance

"If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed."

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"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."

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"At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks."

Family

"Many children's writers don't have children of their own."

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"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."

Books

"When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable."

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"I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them."

Church

"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."

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