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- I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -…
- You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
- If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you…
- I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to…
- You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and…
- Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.
- But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.
- I shall remain on Mars and read a book.
- There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
- There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by…
- If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to…
- What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?
- These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them…
- I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you…
- A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
- Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
- Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls.…
- I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies…
- It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...
- I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning…
- Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved…
- I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a…
- Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so…
- Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very…
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