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I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.
I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.
I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.
When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.
My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.
Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.
I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction.
I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.
For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.
If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research.
It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.
I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.
Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.
I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.
I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.
As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.