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Reading Quotes

"What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone."

"What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone."

Charlie Trotter, American Celebrity

Reading, Saying

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"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."

"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American Poet

Reading, Brooks

29

"If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff."

"If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff."

Bruce Jenner, American Athlete

29

"It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something."

"It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American Poet

29

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."

William Styron, American Novelist

29

"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."

"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."

Angela Carter, English Novelist

Reading, Experience, History, World

29

"From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not."

"From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not."

Diane Wakoski, American Poet

Reading, Poetry, Myth

29

"I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else."

"I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else."

Jonny Greenwood, English Musician

29

"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."

"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."

Walter Scott, Scottish Novelist

29

"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Reading, Thought, Books

29

"No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one."

"No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one."

Robert Byrne, American Celebrity

Reading, Suicide, Trying

29

"I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed."

"I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed."

Janis Karpinski, American Soldier

29

"Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments."

"Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments."

Jim Evans, American Athlete

Reading, Umpire

29

"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

29

"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head."

"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Reading, Imagination, Books, Cognition

29

"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."

"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."

Julian Assange, Australian Activist

Reading, Being, Day, Prison

29

"I do a lot of readings."

"I do a lot of readings."

Paul Muldoon, English Poet

28

"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

28

"I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize."

"I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize."

Bob Edwards, American Journalist

28

"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us."

"I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

Reading, Progress, Poems, Poets

28

"The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful."

"The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful."

Amelia Barr, American Novelist

28

"Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread."

"Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread."

Jimmy Carter, American President

28

"I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it."

"I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it."

Robert Sheckley, American Author

28

"Reading should be a repeat performance."

"Reading should be a repeat performance."

John Barton, Canadian Poet

Reading, Performance

28

"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write."

"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write."

Norman Mailer, American Novelist

28

"I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them."

"I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them."

Jhumpa Lahiri, American Author

Reading, Right, Writing

28

"After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter."

"After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

Reading, Death, Writer

28

"Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen."

"Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen."

Stephen Ambrose, American Historian

28

"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."

"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

28

"What we wish, that we readily believe."

"What we wish, that we readily believe."

Demosthenes, Greek Statesman

28

"For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone."

"For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone."

Walter Jon Williams, American Writer

28

"Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce...As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium."

"Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult to reproduce...As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Reading, Books, Solitude, Knowledge

28

"We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next."

"We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next."

Saul Bellow, American Novelist

28

"Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views."

"Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views."

Nikolai Gogol, Russian Writer

28

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

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

Mike Johanns, American Politician

27

"In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!"

"In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!"

Wally Amos, American Businessman

27

"The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work."

"The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Reading, Work, Listening, Practice

27

"I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along."

"I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along."

Charles Kuralt, American Journalist

27

"These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything."

"These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything."

Jack Vance, American Author

27

"God, how I still love private readers. It's what we all used to be."

"God, how I still love private readers. It's what we all used to be."

J.D. Salinger, American Politician

Reading, Affection, Nostalgia, Connection

27

"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."

"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."

Roger McGough, British Poet

Reading, Poetry, Father, Soul, People

27

"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."

"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."

J. D. Salinger, American Novelist

27

"Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen."

"Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen."

George Byron, Scottish Poet

27

"It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections."

"It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections."

Michael Chabon, American Author

27

"The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real."

"The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real."

Jean Baudrillard, French Sociologist

27

"Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living."

"Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living."

Paul Eldridge, American Educator

Reading, Epitaphs, Lies, Living

27

"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."

"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."

Marilynne Robinson, American Author

Reading, Perseverance, Comfort, Humor

27

"Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading."

"Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading."

Gilbert Murray, British Diplomat

Reading, Literature

27

"Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'"

"Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'"

Nicholas M. Butler, American Philosopher

27

"I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive."

"I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive."

Rita Dove, American Poet

Reading, Ability, Shakespeare, Strangers

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