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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.
Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.
I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book
I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.
I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.
He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.
You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.
I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.
You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'
I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.
I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.
A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.
I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies.
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.