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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."
168
"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."
129
"I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing."
127
"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."
123
"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."
122
"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."
103
"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."
102
"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."
101
"One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited."
89
"He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech."
64
"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."
62
"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."
60
"Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately."
59
"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
58
"I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!"
57
"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."
54
"I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."
54
"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
52
"Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers."
51
"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."
50
"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
50
"When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there."
49
"I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury."
49
"If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything."
49
"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."
48
"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."
47
"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts."
46
"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."
46
"The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are."
46
"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."
46
"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
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