"That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before."

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"That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before."

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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."

Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese Writer

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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."

Joseph Epstein, American Writer

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"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."

Boris Becker, German Athlete

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"Hard writing makes easy reading."

Wallace Stegner, American Novelist

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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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"Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it."

Jean Paul, German Author

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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."

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"Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants."

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"I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes."

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