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The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.
Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.
To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.
OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.
I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.
People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.
Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.
When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.
You will never have the answers, but you have to keep pushing yourself and keep reading and keep working on yourself.
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark.
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.
I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.
The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.
One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.'
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.
I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon!
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).