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““Books, I read them for one reason and one reason only so that I can appear more educated than I actually am.””

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“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly.”

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“My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but…

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“Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.”

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“Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the…

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“If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.”

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“Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End”

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“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.”

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“Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.”

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“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to…

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“Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.”

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“Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are…

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“Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.”

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

Karen Thompson Walker

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

Christopher K. Krebs

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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