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Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.
On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.
Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.
The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.
I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.
Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.
The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.
What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.
I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.
Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school.
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.
I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.
I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.
You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled.
The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.
When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.
One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.