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I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.
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I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
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I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds.


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I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.


Jon Heder
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I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
Italo Calvino
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
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The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
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I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.
Natalie Portman
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
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In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's literature and detective fiction, of modern adventure, mystery and romance.
Michael Dirda
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
Ferran Adria
I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.
Bonnie Hunt
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I always loved horror, but I read all sorts of books. My favourite as a child was 'The Secret Garden' which has a big influence on Lord Loss, believe it or not!
Darren Shan
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People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.


Mitch Albom
I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.
Nora Roberts
I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.
Vincent Bugliosi
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.


Haruki Murakami
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When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
Thomas Ken
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I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.


Mark E. Smith
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I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.


Freddie Prinze, Jr.
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