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Reading Quotes
"And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing."
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"If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe."
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"I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers."
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"I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it."
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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
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"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
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"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard."
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"I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch."
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"Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect."
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"I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions."
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"I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written."
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"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."
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"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
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"What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
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"Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers."
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"Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay."
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"I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author."
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"I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1."
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"The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it."
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"In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading."
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"I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed."
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"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
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"All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom."
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"I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready."
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"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."
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"If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair."
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"The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write."
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"I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it."
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"All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job."
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"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."
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"I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season."
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"I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive."
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"CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there."
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"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."
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"To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down."
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"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."
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