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"German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case."
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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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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"
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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
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"Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read."
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"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."
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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"Kindle, isn't it? the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books. "Oh, probably not all of them, Wesley said. "Huh? Why not? "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant. "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning! she said, and went off chortling."
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"Read a short story every day."
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"I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned."
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"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."
Creativity
"The Army was my bread and butter."
Army
"I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class."
Time
"Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby."
Army
"I have friends who read my books in Greek."
Friendship
"German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case."
Reading
"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."
Experience
"But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away."
Stress
"Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers."
Business
"A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!"
Writing
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