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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.
A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.
You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.
Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.
Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.
Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.
We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.
As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.
I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.
The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little
I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip.
Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair
We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?
Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.
I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof.
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.
To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.
[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.
I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.
I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.
Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.