Read Quotes
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I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.
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Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
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I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.
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Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it.
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Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.
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People who read are people who dream.
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Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.
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To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.
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There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content.
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I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.
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Don't believe everything you read.
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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
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Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.
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People read with their ears, whether they know it or not.
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I have read your book and much like it.
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Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
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I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.
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I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
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Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Achebe. Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you don’t. Read the genres you love, but sometimes also read a book outside your comfort zone. Read voraciously.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
