#read

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other. ↗

— John McGahern

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I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world. ↗

— John McGahern

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I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television. ↗

— John McGahern

#away #back #books #boy #bring

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#national #national pastime #pastime #poetry #reading

I never even had the time to read novels. ↗

— George McGovern

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Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four. ↗

— Rose McGowan

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I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#got #i #new #new york #out

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

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I often don't read reviews. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#often #read #reviews

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#building #confidence #constructed #enter #gate