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We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

~Ali Smith

Topics: After Believe Book Expect Just Listen Music Never Never Expect Once Piece Read Reading Tend Understand

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A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Always Argument Book Dialogue Go Good Life Like Much Proof Rather Read

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All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Alive Book Final First Language Levels Life Line Need Open Page Reader Writer

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When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Because Beings Book Exciting Fall Happening Human Human Beings Interesting Language Love Something Us Way Works You I Love

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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Book Disappears Every Every Time Everything Finish Forget Head Information Just Learned Out Time Writing

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I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Been Before Book Did Feel Go Imagined Later Like More Real Sometimes Than Wrote I Feel I Feel Like

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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Begun Book Hopefully Itself Never Novels Once Out Plot Reveals Story Terms Tone

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What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

~Alice James

Topics: Book Else Escape Everyone Everyone Else Gives Reading Sense Some Superiority Which

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Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Another Being Being There Book Even Great Great Pleasure Idea Information Just More Novel Pleasure Publish Rather Readers Reading Some Something Sort Suspect Taught Than Think Want Which You I Think

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'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Adolescence After Beginning Book Books Childhood Classic Every Lives Material Really Should Sure Those Writer Written You Younger

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