The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers!
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
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David Mitchell
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open,...
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Italo Calvino
We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
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B.F. Skinner
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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Gustave Flaubert
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
More Quotes By Ashwin Sanghi
My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.
My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face.
Stop worrying whether the grass is greener on the other side. Find out how to own the other side.
My life is ruled by four W’s: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step unless you missed it.
