"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."

Reading, Knowledge, Survival, Learning

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"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."

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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

Reading, Joy, Novel, Emotion

"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."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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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."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

Reading, Focus, Presence, Learning

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

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"Read in order to live."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Reading, Order

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

Mary Wortley Montagu, English Writer

Reading, Entertainment, Pleasure

"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

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"Reading sparks writing."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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Alienation

"He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody."

Salvation

"Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works."

Absurdity

"Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems."

Decisions

"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."

Shame

"My father is an amazing man."

Admiration

"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."

Depression

"Summer coming like a car from down the highway."

Seasons

"But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other."

Isolation

"If it's fiction, then it better be true."

Fiction