"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."

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Source : "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

Mark Haddon

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“I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original 'Total Recall' before I went back and watched. It had been about twenty years. I wanted to write it out before I watched it again. And I felt if those things stayed with me long enough, those are the things that I wanted to highlight.”
“But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.”
“Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.”

Source : "You Have More Power Than You Think" by David Geller, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2014.
“Sometimes,â€ Joe said after a bit, â€œitâ€™s just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if thatâ€™s what youâ€™re not, anymore.”
“I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.”
“Sir,â€™ said Stephen, â€˜I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.”
“When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.64, Macmillan
“I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.”

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