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You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.
If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!
What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo to most Tweets.
Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.
Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.
When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.
In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.
I love writing dialogue - it's when I really lose myself in my work. I love reading it, too, when it's good and rings true.
Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.
Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.
After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.
One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.
I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.
if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.
When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.
I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.
I grew up in New York, so I grew up reading the Sunday Times. It's always something I've been aware of, since my childhood.
I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.
It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.
Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.
I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing.
I read books when I have time. I probably spend a third of the time watching TV, and the rest of it is reading, but I read.
Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.
The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.
A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.