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Births

• 1950 - Bernie Taupin
• 1936 - M. Scott Peck
• 1957 - Jeff Gannon
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• 1914 - Vance Packard

Deaths

• 1970 - Joseph Wood Krutch
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• The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I’ll hush.

  David Foster Wallace

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• To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I’m scared about how sappy this’ll look in print, saying this.

  David Foster Wallace

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• The thing is, the reader doesn’t want to hear about bad times.

  David Thomas Jones

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  A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

  George Raymond Richard Martin

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• There have been times when I reread – or at least leafed through – something because I’d sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

  Peter Straub

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• I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

  Iris Johansen

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• I’m a lousy reader.

  Broderick Crawford

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• What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

  Ian McEwan

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• I don’t read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

  Payne Stewart

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• Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

  Paul Eldridge

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• The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

  Giacomo Casanova

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  The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That’s why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.

  Paulo Coelho

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• I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

  Tom T. Hall

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• It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

  George Plimpton

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• As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn’t. My son is forever gonna believe that I’m an honest person or I’m a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.

  Todd Burpo

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• The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

  Jerzy Kosinski

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• Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

  Thomas Wellnowski

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• It’s always hard when you’re playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There’s a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone’s idea of that.

  Gary Oldman

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• I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

  Sarah Vowell

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• Will the reader turn the page?

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

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