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The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them.
Italo Calvino
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.
Helen Dunmore
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I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.
Mary Matalin
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Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.


Ellie Kemper
I am no expert on tax; I'm a film producer. I read books and think about which ones would make good movies, and then I work with directors in order to make them.
Alison Owen
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I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I haven't read them.
Max Irons
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I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
Jean M. Auel
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I read fantasy books like the Harry Potter books, 'Twilight,' also biographies, and I like to read about people who have been through stuff like wars or lost their families - real life stuff, you know? I like to read about their experiences and how they coped with that.
Wynter Gordon
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I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there's more in it. That may be wrong, but that's what I comfort myself with.
Alan Bennett
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Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.
Kathleen Hanna
The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.
Frances O'Connor
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
Jean M. Auel
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I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.


Richard Attenborough
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
Jack Vance
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.


Irwin Shaw
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
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I think you'd have to literally live in a cave to not know anything about 'Twilight'. I've seen a few of the movies, but I haven't read the books.
Jake Abel
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I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
Ferran Adria
They were the books to read, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' A rite of passage going through life.
Sylvester McCoy
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I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.


Virat Kohli
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