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Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.
I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a great time.
For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.
I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.
The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.
I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.
Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.
I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity.
Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true.
I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.
'Jingle Belle' spins out of my love for just sitting down and reading a good, fun Sunday morning comic strip panel.
I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.
All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.
It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.
A good cartoon, what it does, is sum up a situation, very neatly, as opposed to reading a lot of articles and so on.
You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.
We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.
I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.