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If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

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Without story books is like a person with no soul.

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A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't ca...more

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If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the...more

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‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you...more

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

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I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This ...more

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Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

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Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but death and taxes. But that’s n...more

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When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds to...more

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The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

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Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.