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"There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book."
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"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."
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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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"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."
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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
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"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."
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"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."
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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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"Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!"
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"The world of books is heavenly paradise."
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"The truth is that most writers are needy."
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"She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash."
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"Remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents."
Writing

"If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered."
Writing

"Atonement was powerful, it was the lock on the door you closed against the past."
Love

"The memories: they are the reality."
Love

"To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not training her to bite? Training both of them to bite?"
Life

"It's about how some people carelessly squander what others would sell their souls to have: a healthy, pain-free body. And why? Because they're too blind, too emotionally scarred, or too self-involved to see past the earth's dark curve to the next sunrise. Which always comes, if one continues to draw breath."
Health

"One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else."
Life

"Never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh."
Faith
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