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Reading about what a digital native thinks of the Internet is like reading about what it's like to blink: it's kind of boring.
You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?
I keep reading that Donald Trump is the most pro-LGBT GOP presidential nominee of all time - and I actually think that's true.
Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.
When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.
Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.
Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a book... absolute heaven.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry
I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are.
This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.
I felt like Jason Behr and I had such a unique chemistry. He just walked in and we started reading together, it was just there
I'm on the playstation, or else I go out and play football. I enjoy movies and sitcoms. I love reading motivational books too.
If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.
I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.
Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.
I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.
I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.