"Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty."

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"Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty."

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"Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever you're ready for is ready for you."

Mark Victor Hansen, American Businessman

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"A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect."

Mark Lawrence, British Novelist

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"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong."

Tamora Pierce, American Author

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"The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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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."

John Green, American Author

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"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."

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"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."

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"In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better."

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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

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"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

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"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."

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"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."

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