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Tom Stoppard 116
British playwright 1937Related quotes
Phlogiston interview (1995)
Context: Well, I decided that as a teenager that I really didn't know enough to describe character well and I was wasting my time. I'd learned as much as I could about story telling techniques and it wasn't a matter of technique any more. It was a matter of substance. As a result I said I was going to wait until I was a lot older and had more experience. So it was that after I got out of college I'd been away from SF for about four years. I'd read SF steadily from when I was eleven until I started college. When I started college I said, "I'm not going to read that while I'm here, I'm going to learn poetry and other things of that sort" in fact I wrote a lot of poetry then.

Chico Enterprise Record http://www.chicoer.com/buzz/ci_4825293 (December 12, 2006)

“I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”
1Q84 (2009-2010)

Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler