Reading Quotes
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I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'
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I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.
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I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
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I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?
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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.
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Bashir looked up and smiled, wondering why some people seemed to think that if you were reading, they weren’t interrupting anything.
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Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
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As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.
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All the information in the universe, plus several bits from other dimensions that I'm still trying to sort out, have just been mainlined into my nervous system. The shards from a googleplex of infobits seem to be stuck in the part of my brain just above the pineal gland. Yes, I've just been reading Kenji Siratori again. This is my idea of a good time.
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Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?
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Since I was a kid, I feel most confident when I'm reading.
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
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I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.
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I try to bring myself to every role. The last thing you want to seem like to other people is a talking head or an actor reading lines.
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The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over.
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It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.
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There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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.
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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
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I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
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I have to often read the same sentence over and over before I understand it. And I have to convince myself that what I'm reading is so enjoyable and so exciting and so good for me that it's worth the effort.
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One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.
