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  1. Paulo Coelho _ The Zahir

    Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, 'No, I'm not interested.' I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: 'the book is so much better than the film.
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  2. Steven Pressfield _ The Authentic Swing: Notes

    Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it stand for?"They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.
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  3. Patricia A. McKillip _ The Bell at Sealey Head

    The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more."
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  4. George R.R. Martin _ A Dance with Dragons

    A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."
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  5. John Barth _ Lost in the Funhouse

    The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditable motive? How is it you don't go to a movie, watch TV, stare at a wall, play tennis with a friend, make amorous advances to the person who comes to your mind when I speak of amorous advances? Can nothing surfeit, saturate you, turn you off? Where's your shame?
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  6. Salman Rushdie

    When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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  7. Anne Fadiman _ Ex Libris: Confessions of a

    It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.
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  8. Eudora Welty _ The Ponder Heart

    I'm a great reader that never has time to read.
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  9. Carol Shields _ Unless

    Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.
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  10. Larry McMurtry _ Walter Benjamin at the Dairy

    Great readers {are} those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.
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  11. Nick Hornby _ The Polysyllabic Spree

    Zaid's finest moment, however, comes in his second paragraph, when he says that "the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more."That's me! And you, probably! That's us!
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  12. Roxane Gay _ Bad Feminist

    This is where we should start focusing this conversation: how men {as readers, critics, and editors} can start to bear the responsibility for becoming better, broader readers.
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