Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

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What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

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You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

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Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

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Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.

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Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

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It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading ― Mike Tyson

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Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is. - Wally Amos

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