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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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"Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!"
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"The world of books is heavenly paradise."
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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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"Reading sparks writing."
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"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."
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"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."
Work
"Many of my poems are not sexual."
Poems
"We control the content of our dreams."
Dream
"I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about."
People
"I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex."
Sex
"We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy."
Writing
"It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!"
Time
"I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home."
Home
"My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand."
Poetry
"I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse."
Sex
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