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Reading Quotes
"I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way."
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"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."
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"Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading."
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"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
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"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."
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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
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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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"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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"The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write."
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"Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise."
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"I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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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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"I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written."
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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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"I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along."
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"In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading."
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
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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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"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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"We only understand that which already within us."
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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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"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
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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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"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."
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"I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium."
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"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
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"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."
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