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Reading Quotes
"If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it."
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"When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics."
39
"But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy."
37
"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."
34
"I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing."
32
"Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act."
30
"When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared."
28
"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."
23
"I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable."
23
"It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading."
22
"The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind."
20
"All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself."
19
"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment."
18
"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider."
14
"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
13
"Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'"
13
"When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there."
12
"It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it."
9
"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
9
"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts."
8
"Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do."
8
"I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."
8
"Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers."
8
"He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech."
8
"As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for."
8
"It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic."
7
"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."
7
"The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean."
7
"You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice."
7
"I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author."
6
"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."
6
"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
6
"I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate."
6
"I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!"
6
"Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with."
6
"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
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