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Let's Get Reading: Newsletter 77
“When I'm not writing, it's as if I've never written a word or had any desire to write. I fall into bad habits. I stay up too late and sleep in too…
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Let's Get Reading: Newsletter 76
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” – Jane Austen
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Let's Get Reading: Newsletter 75
“Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.” – Toni Morrison
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Let's Get Reading: Newsletter 74
“When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want…
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Charles Pignal
Let's Get Reading: Newsletter 73
“A good book is an event in my life.” – Stendhal
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Let's Get Reading: Newsletter 72
“I feel just worthless today. I have to drive myself. I have used every physical excuse not to work except take illness. I have dawdled, gone to the…
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Let's Get Reading: Newsletter 71
“I have challenged myself that I will read thousands of books and I will empower myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat…
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Let's Get Reading: Newsletter 70
“A routine would be too much like work, and I don't really like to work, even though I work a great deal. All the things I do that might be considered…
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Let's Get Reading: Newsletter 69
“I want a readership that wants to read things because the work is difficult, not because it's only fun. I want the fun to be in figuring it out. That's…
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Charles Pignal
Let's Get Reading: Newsletter 68
“The first thing a young writer sets out to do is to show his readers that he possesses a dictionary.” – Jorge Luis Borges
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Charles Pignal
Let's Get Reading: Newsletter 67
“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” – Malcolm X
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Charles Pignal
Let's Get Reading: Newsletter 66
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book. When I have a house of my own, I shall be…
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