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Reading Quotes

"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."

"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."

Beverly Cleary, American Author

6

"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."

"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."

Jerzy Kosinski, Polish Novelist

6

"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread."

"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread."

Francois Mauriac, French Novelist

6

"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."

"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Reading, Forget

6

"We're not gonna misread our mandate."

"We're not gonna misread our mandate."

Mitch McConnell, American Politician

6

"Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details."

"Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details."

Jim Evans, American Athlete

Reading, Management, Attention, Potential

6

"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."

"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."

Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakian Athlete

6

"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."

"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."

Norman MacCaig, Scottish Poet

6

"I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan."

"I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan."

Eddie Campbell, Scottish Artist

5

"In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read."

"In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read."

Harold Bloom, American Critic

5

"We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading."

"We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading."

Thom Gunn, British Poet

5

"I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it."

"I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it."

David Eddings, American Author

5

"All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job."

"All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job."

Harvey Milk, American Politician

Reading, Being, Country, Gay, Job

5

"The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten."

"The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten."

Frederik Pohl, American Writer

5

"No two persons ever read the same book."

"No two persons ever read the same book."

Edmund Wilson, American Critic

5

"I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written."

"I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written."

Irwin Shaw, American Novelist

5

"He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different."

"He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different."

Matthew Bright, American Director

Reading, Thought, Republican

5

"There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying."

"There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying."

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American Actor

Reading, Rumors

5

"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."

"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Reading, Thinking

5

"In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading."

"In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading."

Juan Goytisolo, Spanish Poet

5

"The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry."

"The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry."

Reynolds Price, American Novelist

Reading, Poetry, Fiction

5

"Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing."

"Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing."

John Sladek, American Author

Reading, Influence, Writing

5

"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."

"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

5

"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."

"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."

Joyce Maynard, American Writer

5

"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."

"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."

John McGahern, Irish Writer

Reading, Writing

5

"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."

"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."

Wilfred Owen, English Soldier

Reading, Satisfaction, Thinking

5

"When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."

"When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."

Cliff Fadiman, American Author

5

"To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat."

"To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat."

James Meade, English Economist

5

"There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work."

"There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work."

William Gaddis, American Novelist

Reading, Work, Nothing, Writer

5

"Reading is important."

"Reading is important."

John Garfield, American Actor

5

"I tend to like things that already exist."

"I tend to like things that already exist."

Jasper Johns, American Artist

5

"I was a precocious reader."

"I was a precocious reader."

Norman Spinrad, American Author

5

"In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it."

"In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it."

Tim Berners Lee, English Inventor

5

"I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's."

"I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's."

William Peter Blatty, American Writer

5

"As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other."

"As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other."

Mary Oliver, American Poet

Reading, Poems, World

5

"The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification."

"The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification."

Mike Johanns, American Politician

4

"The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write."

"The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write."

Roger Ascham, English Writer

4

"Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise."

"Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise."

Douglas Dunn, Scottish Poet

4

"I do a lot of readings."

"I do a lot of readings."

Paul Muldoon, English Poet

4

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

4

"I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed."

"I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed."

Sarah Vowell, American Author

4

"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since."

"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since."

Beverly Cleary, American Author

4

"There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den."

"There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one man or woman reading one newspaper in the kitchen or watching TV in the den."

Morris Hite, American Businessman

Reading, Advertising, Kitchen, Man

4

"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."

"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."

Sanford I. Weill, American Businessman

4

"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."

"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."

Jack Vance, American Author

4

"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."

"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."

Mary MacLane, Canadian Writer

4

"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web."

"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web."

Alan Dean Foster, American Author

Reading, Newspapers

4

"It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words."

"It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words."

Anthony Doerr, American Writer

Reading, Grace, Research, Teaching

4

"You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings."

"You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings."

Jack Dempsey, American Athlete

4

"Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?"

"Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?"

Jackie Collins, British Author

4

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