Reading Quotes
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When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a sense of disconnect between my sense of imagination and the world around me, which I don't think is common for Americans. It forces you to learn to look at the world through other people's eyes.
Laila Lalami
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If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
Gloria Estefan
Miami Sound Machine
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I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.
Mario Benedetti
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Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.
Frank Zappa
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I'm not reading reviews and critics. I don't care. I guess I'm still a little on my own planet.
Lea Seydoux
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Since I was a kid, I feel most confident when I'm reading.
David Ebershoff
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More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.
M. J. Rose
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a certain degree you're at the mercy of what is available, what you're reading, what you become passionate about, and ultimately, what people want to hire you for.
Elijah Wood
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I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are Hertling, Suarez, Gibson and Stephenson, but I enjoy many others. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.
Brad Feld
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Reading makes me so sleepy. Honestly, I'm a visual learner.
SZA
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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
Alan Dean Foster
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The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is reading and recitation: participation.
Edward Hirsch
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Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.
Amy Waldman
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When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!
Emile Hirsch
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Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
George Andrew Olah
