„I think it was the first novel I’d actually read in my own time, and of my own volition. I’d actually sat down and read a book, and I was 21. Ridiculous. I can’t remember reading anything before.“

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— Barry Hines

On Animal Farm
Barry Hines 1970 interview

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Barry Hines

britischer Schriftsteller und Drehbuchautor 1939 - 2016

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„I don’t know how long I sat there reading about it, but at some point I’d read enough. I leaned back and stared at the ceiling. I suppose I was in shock, but whether it was the shock of learning about something horrific, or the shock of learning about my own ignorance, I’m not sure.“

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— Tara Westover, buch Educated

Quelle: Educated (2018), Chapter 17, “To Keep it Holy” (p. 157; the reference is to the Holocaust)

„This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.“

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— Carol Shields, Unless

Quelle: Unless

„I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.“

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— Toni Morrison American writer 1931 - 2019

„I was kind of solitary. I'd spend a lot of time on my own, reading books. I didn't integrate very well.“

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— Philip Ó Ceallaigh Irish writer 1968

On Life, on his time at school.
Notes from a library bar (2006)

„I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.“

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— Bill Murray American actor and comedian 1950

Interview with Jessica Lee Jernigan (May 1999) http://jessicaleejernigan.typepad.com/jessica_lee_jernigan/2004/08/archival_interv.html

„The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I’d done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn’t read it.“

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— Buchi Emecheta author 1944 - 2017

Quelle: On her tough marriage https://www.zikoko.com/life/oldies/9-thought-provoking-quotes-from-the-literary-icon-buchi-emecheta/.

„I think it’s relative to the story you’re writing. Some novels are filled with summary and some are filled with scenes. Others are a beautiful, confusing mix, of course. Ultimately, I wanted to write a novel that I’d want to read later.“

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— Jon Pineda American writer 1971

On choosing a story writing method in “7 QUESTIONS WITH JON PINEDA” https://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2018/06/7-questions-jon-pineda in Hyphen Magazine (2018 Jun 7)

„I read all these books and I had the feeling that just reading things is not enough. I also wanted to create my own stuff, to create something new.“

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— Caucher Birkar Kurdish mathematician 1978

"An innovator who brings order to an infinitude of equations" Quanta Magazine (2018)

„I'm not this crazy drunk guy you see on 'SuperGroup'. I like to be mellow sometimes. I like to read a lot, and I'm actually starting to write my first book. I have read so many books and now I'm trying to document this specific tour, because it is fascinating!“

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— Sebastian Bach Canadian singer 1968

Chico Enterprise Record http://www.chicoer.com/buzz/ci_4825293 (December 12, 2006)

„Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.“

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— Angela Carter English novelist 1940 - 1992

„I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.“

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— Edward Said Professor of English and literature 1935 - 2003

Quelle: Palestine

„The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.“

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— Oliver Goldsmith Irish physician and writer 1728 - 1774

Quelle: The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

„When I first joined my local library, I read endlessly. I immediately headed for the fantasy section, fairy tales, you name it. As a teen-ager, I read every novel by Kenneth Roberts, who wrote historical novels about the Revolutionary War period. My mother used to read to me. Heidi was one of my childhood favorites.“

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— Richard Matheson American fiction writer 1926 - 2013

The New York Times interview (1994)

„The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.“

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— Richard Rodríguez American journalist and essayist 1944

Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)

„I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.“

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— Terry Pratchett English author 1948 - 2015

„Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.“

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— Aldous Huxley, buch Schöne neue Welt

Variante: You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
Quelle: Brave New World (1932), Ch. 3

„I can't actually play any instrument properly. I can't read music. And here's the New York Times calling me the new George Gershwin. It was so ridiculous, really embarrassing. It was embarrassing to watch these people fall into the trap of their own critical conceits.“

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— Elvis Costello English singer-songwriter 1954

Musician (March 1986)

„[On book reviewing] I will only turn down a book if I know I won't be able to muster enough interest to read the bloody thing. Or if I realize that I despise the author, and that I'm just going to become hysterical in my dispraise. A couple of times in my life I've disobeyed my own rule, and later regretted it. […] It's a delicate business. All too often, if one writes a favorable notice, it's seen as a product of the old-boy network, and if one dispraises a book, it's seen as envy. Nobody seems able to accept that I review books as a book reviewer, not as a competing novelist. When I review, I'm being as honest as I can. And I'm saying to the reading public — the minuscule segment of the reading public that reads reviews — that this is my judgment.“

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— John Banville Irish writer 1945

John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200 (2009)

„Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.“

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— Germaine Greer Australian feminist author 1939

„Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.“

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— Anne Brontë, buch Agnes Grey

Quelle: Agnes Grey

„I think it was the first novel I’d actually read in my own time, and of my own volition. I’d actually sat down and read a book, and I was 21. Ridiculous. I can’t remember reading anything before.“

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