Reading Quotes
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The writer does not get from his work as he writes and reads it the same aesthetic shock that the reader does; and since the writer is so accustomed to reading other stories, and having them produce a decided effect upon him, he is disquieted at not being equally affected by his own.
Randall Jarrell
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I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
Courtney Barnett
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Generations of devoted American history buffs have spent countless hours reading and writing long books about the American Revolution without ever having come across the name of Dr. Thomas Young. Yet it was Young who came up with the idea for the original tea party - the one in Boston Harbor.
Matthew Stewart
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Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.
Mary Steenburgen
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Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.
Terry Eagleton
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I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
Ken Follett
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Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.
Daniel Tammet
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As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure it's a smooth transition. I believe we still need places where people can go to handle, hold and talk about books, get information about what books are out there, and so on.
James Patterson
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I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
Eleanor Catton
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In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.
Leo Durocher
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She was sitting there beside the bookcase, trying to read, in a growing panic of self-consciousness. Why? Because reading presupposed a future.
Martin Amis
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Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
Arthur Smith
