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Reading Quotes
"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
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"But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube."
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"But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it."
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"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."
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"The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring."
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"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."
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"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."
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"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."
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"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."
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"I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling."
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"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates."
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"We only understand that which already within us."
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"The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up."
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"It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)."
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"I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems."
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"I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain."
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"I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's."
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"I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know."
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"Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise."
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"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
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"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."
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"Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?"
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"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."
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"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."
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"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
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"We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting."
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"The shelves were supposed to be loaded with books-but they were, of course, really doors: each book-lid opened as exciting as Alice putting her gold key in the lock. I spent days running in and out of other worlds like a time bandit, or a spy. I was as excited as I've ever been in my life, in that library: scoring new books the minute they came in; ordering books I'd heard of-then waiting, fevered, for them to arrive, like they were the word Christmas."
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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
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"The ending of a book is, in my experience, both the best and worst part to read. For the ending will often determine whether you love or hate the book.Both emotions lead to disappointment. If the ending was good, and the book was worth your time, then you are left annoyed and depressed because there is no more book to read. However, if the ending was bad, then it's too late to stop reading. You're left annoyed and depressed because you wasted so much time on a book with a bad ending.Therefore, reading is obviously worthless, and you should go spend your time on other, more valuable pursuits."
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"One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer."
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"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."
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"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."
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"What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone."
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"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."
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