Read Quotes
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Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.
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But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
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Read to live, not live to read.
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I'm not well read.
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What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.... a tour de force by one of England's best novelists.... Atonement is a spectacular book; as good a novel - and more satisfying... - than anything McEwan has written....sublimely written narrative.... The Dunkirk passage is a stupendous piece of writing, a set piece that could easily stand on its own.
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I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.
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I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.
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I'm a really easy guy to read.
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We are meaning-making creatures who read other people’s subtle clues just as they read ours.
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Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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I came across the script 42, and I read it, and I said, "I really want to do this." And when I had my agent call, they said, ah, you know, it's not what they're looking for. So, OK. And then I let it go for a while, and then it just kept gnawing at me, so I kept pushing.
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I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
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There was no demonstration of love I could read as a little boy.
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I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
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A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
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I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.
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The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.
