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One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading it.
Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.
I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.
I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
This is the most important principle of reading on the Internet: You must determine for yourself whether or not something is true.
I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way
The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.
The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.
Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.
Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.
There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better
I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.
Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.
I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.
As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part
My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me.
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice.
I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.
I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.
I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with except wrap old fish.
I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me?