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You learn to write by reading and writing, writing and reading. As a craft it's acquired through the apprentice system, but you choose your own teache...more

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That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

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What did they want from it? Lechery, smut, confirmation of their worst suspicions. But perhaps some of them wanted, despite themselves, to be seduced....more

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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

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If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody els...more

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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may t...more

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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no ...more

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A word after a word after a word is power.

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I wasn't discriminating in my reading, and I'm still not. I read then primarily to be entertained, as I do now. And I'm not saying that apologetically...more

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Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in l...more