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

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There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.

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The things of the world fell by the wayside . . . but literature was eternal.

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A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength....more

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Good books are for consideration after, too.

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Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

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He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that ...more

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You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

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I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before th...more