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As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.
Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.
I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.
When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.
Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.
The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.
And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.
I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?
I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.
I love reading beautiful stories. I love poems and yes, I fantasize about someone writing beautiful lines for me.
What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? "Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!
Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
All-star lay downs are all about reading your opponents, trusting your instincts, and then making the right move.
We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.
If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.
Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it?
Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
There’s the feeling, and the right reading - that’s all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling.
At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love.
I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.
It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.
The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.
When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.