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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong."
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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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"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."
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"No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table."
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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."
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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."
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"I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices."
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"I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed."
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"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."
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"I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers."
People
"There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry."
Reading
"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."
Life
"I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step."
Writing
"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."
Love
"I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!"
Dream
"The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings."
Time
"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."
Education
"If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level."
Trust
"People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable."
People
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