"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

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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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"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."

Stephen King, American Author

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"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."

Roger McGough, British Poet

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"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."

Roger McGough, British Poet

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"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Most safely shall you tread the middle path."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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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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"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."

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"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."

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"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."

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

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."

"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."

"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."

"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."

"Most safely shall you tread the middle path."

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

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"The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans."

"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."

"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."

"Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel."

"I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies."

"I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk."

"The middlebrow, I hate."

"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."

"It's funny to be a critic."

"What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along."