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I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.


Tom Sizemore
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I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.


Peter Bichsel
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I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.
Paullina Simons
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The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
Lisa Unger
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
Gary Coleman
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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
Andrew Wyeth
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I believe that every person has uniqueness - something that nobody else has.


Michael Schenker
The gospel is entirely a message about what someone else has done not only for me but also for the renewal of the whole creation.
Michael Horton
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I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
Jesse Ventura
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
Daniel Craig
Tags: You Your Thing
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A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.


Mohsin Hamid
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost
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Every writer has to find their own way into writing.


Margaret Mahy
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I definitely want to act and I want to sing. If those two fall through, I want to become a writer, probably, like a songwriter for other people, or a novel writer. I write a lot, and I read a lot. I like reading fiction.
Cassie Steele
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
Adam Johnson
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To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
George Saunders
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My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.
Robert Cormier
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I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain.
Monica Ali
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.
Arthur Smith
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My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.


Leslie Fiedler
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