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If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

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The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, ...more

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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

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Resolution demands a sacrifice.

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You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.

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It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-one fan.” The minute you start to write all those p...more

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Without story books is like a person with no soul.

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A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't ca...more

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If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the...more

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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you...more

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

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The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, ...more

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When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.