Reading Quotes
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There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
Karl Lagerfeld
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We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.
Warren Farrell
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Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.
Karen Allen
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Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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If a kid is reading a book about someone who looks like them but doesn't talk like them, we stunt their growth by dissing them.
Jason Reynolds
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People may not like to meet bandits, especially on a dark night, but a taste for reading about them seems to be universal.
Eric Hobsbawm
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All reading should be pleasurable! I don't like people who keep reeling out the 'books are so important' line. First and foremost, reading is about entertainment, the same as movies, video games and music.
Darren Shan
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I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.
Jesmyn Ward
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Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.
Mal Peet
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The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
Irving Howe
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I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.
John Corbett
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Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).
Arnold Bennett
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
Manuel Puig
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Up until the age of 13, girls are confident, and they feel like they can conquer the world. Then adolescence sets in, and girls lose their confidence. And 'Seventeen' is really about them taking an hour out of their month, unplugging, lying on their bed, and reading a magazine that believes in them.
Joanna Coles
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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
Bill Vaughan
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I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
Ang Lee
