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- The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
- At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
- Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it…
- The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.
- When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
- Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.
- I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.
- People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.
- So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run…
- She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
- I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all…
- Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something.…
- I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in…
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