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Reading Quotes
"Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity-civilization's backbone-that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized . . ."
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"If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair."
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"I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch."
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"Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect."
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"Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise."
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"The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of 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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"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web."
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"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."
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"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
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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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"The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up."
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"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it."
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"In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced."
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"For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone."
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"The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden."
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"The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story."
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"My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine."
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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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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
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"Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay."
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"Whatever you're ready for is ready for you."
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"We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next."
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"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard."
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"When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like."
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"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."
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"I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize."
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"I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1."
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"I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written."
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"Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do."
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"The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful."
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"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."
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"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
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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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"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."
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