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I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

Isabel Allende

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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

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Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.

Otto Penzler

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It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.

John Grisham

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Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.

Greil Marcus

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I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own.

Sarah Waters

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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Andre Gide

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It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

Jim Bishop

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If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

Jennifer Weiner

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I read almost exclusively nonfiction when I read, because even though it's harder to find a great true story, when you find one, the idea that it actually happened is immensely powerful.That's what moves me the most.

Robert Kurson

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You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

Juan Manuel Fangio

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Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

Mickey Spillane

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Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the great homer year with Mark McGwire in '98. But I followed it, and I was proud of him because he was my countryman. There are a lot of great ballplayers from the Dominican, and he's one of the best.

Alfonso Soriano

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I'm always followed by two or three cars and have police around. Even walking in the park, you see them taking photos behind the bushes and trying to videotape everything.

Ai Weiwei

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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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I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.

Sue Monk Kidd

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I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects.

Kourtney Kardashian

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I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.

Terry Hayes

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These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.

William Cavendish

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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

Antonia Fraser

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