Read Quotes
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Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
William Sleator
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Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqeur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.
Bohumil Hrabal
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One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series stands alone, when read collectively they form one big ongoing novel about the main character. Each book represents its own arc: in book one of the series we meet the character and establish a meta-goal that will carry him through further books, in book two that meta-goal is tested, in book three - you get the picture.
Carolyn Wheat
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If you were given a book with the story of your life, would you read the end?
Natasha Friend
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Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
James Anthony Froude
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The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize: I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.
Bernice Rubens
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If Russians knew how to read they would write me off.
Catherine the Great
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Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.
Sharon Creech
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I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages.
Muhammad Ali
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Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.
Soren Kierkegaard
