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I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers stopped reading them.
The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.
And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.
There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the top of the list.
I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.
I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.
I have to say, the other day I was reading some negative comments, and I was thinking they were really funny. So I guess they don't anymore.
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.
The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.
It's not all the time, but you get a sense when you're reading something that it's no longer about boxing or the performance. It's personal.
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.
I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.
Sundays are a good day to look at the limitless possibilities of the week ahead. The key is to prolong that feeling by not reading the news.
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream.
I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.
When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version.
I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.
I hate reading. But I'm trying to force myself because studies have shown that it's literally the only way to matter-of-factly boost your IQ.
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material.
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.
Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.
John Kerry spent the day reading to preschoolers ... and the kids said Kerry actually lacked warmth and failed to articulate a clear message.
I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child.
The problem with most digital comics is that you're simply taking print material and adapting it. It's like reading through a cardboard tube.
What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.
Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.