“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”
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“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.”
“We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.”
“People are like books. Everywhere they're opened, they're read.”
“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”
“Fate is bullshit people force-feed themselves when they're too lazy to carve out a destiny of their own.”