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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
- I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. — Michael Chabon
- The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. — Michael Chabon
- The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire. — Michael Chabon