Reading Quotes
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The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.
Nancy Banks Smith
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If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.
Ann Voskamp
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
James Joyce
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What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.
Jane Green
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Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.
Claire Tomalin
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I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.
Hayley Mills
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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
Virginia Woolf
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I've always wanted to see what Egypt was like when they were building the pyramids or Rome at the height of the empire or Greece - more specifically, Crete before it was destroyed. Why? Because I'm curious how we all hung out on a day to day basis, what was the chit chat, etc. Reading things in a book never gives you the feel.
Albert Hammond, Jr.
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I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.
Jimmy Kimmel
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I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.
Emmanuelle Beart
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I don't divide my reading into demographic categories, any more than I'd divide my friends into groups along ethnic or sexual lines. The thing I look for most is a sense of literary rawness - bareback fiction, if you will.
Christopher Fowler
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My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'
Jason Blum
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I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.
Viswanathan Anand
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I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.
Mark Billingham
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If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.
Linda Fiorentino
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There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'.
Frank Deford
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When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.
Mark Bradford
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Charles de Montesquieu
