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I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.

~Daniel Tammet

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I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Because Certain Consider Even Good Great Highly Imagine Just Just Because Kinds May Maybe Memory Necessarily Particularly Skills Tested Tests Today Very Well Writers I Can Iq

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I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Because Child Ears Feel Fingers Got Head Like Lovely Motion Much Put Quiet Silence Speak Think Used Very Voice Which I Think

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It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Absorb Because Find Hard Long Me My Own Own Voice World

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Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: About Because Brush Brushing Children Difficult Growing Growing Up Learn Mistakes Most Myself Noise Other Overcome People Push Teeth Things Think Up Very Watch Would

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It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Because Big Blue Colour Different Experienced Getting Gradual How Me Must Nine Numbers Out Primary Primary School Printed Process Realising Remember Right Run Same School Sizes Sums Thought Were Which I Remember

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We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.

~Daniel Woodrell

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You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.

~Daniel Woodrell

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Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.

~Daniel Woodrell

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Because my master was this renaissance man, I wasn't just learning a fighting style, I was learning how kung fu permeates all aspects of life, from eating to healthy living to mental state.

~Daniel Wu

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