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Reading Quotes

"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."

"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."

Clifton Paul Fadiman, American Writer

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"I tend to like things that already exist."

"I tend to like things that already exist."

Jasper Johns, American Artist

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"I was a precocious reader."

"I was a precocious reader."

Norman Spinrad, American Author

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"Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel."

"Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel."

Jane Smiley, American Writer

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"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

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"In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants."

"In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants."

William H. Wharton, American Politician

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"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat."

"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat."

Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Statesman

Reading, Government, Fact, State

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"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

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"There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry."

"There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry."

Rita Dove, American Poet

Reading, Poetry, Congress, Rest

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"The greatest gift is the 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."

"The greatest gift is the 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."

Moses Hadas, American Writer

Reading, Experience, Knowledge, Passion

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"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

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"If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?"

"If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?"

Charles de Lint, Canadian Writer

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"You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets."

"You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets."

Peter Lynch, American Businessman

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"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

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"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

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"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."

"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Reading, Women, Life, People, Danger

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"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

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"I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?"

"I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?"

Jessica Savitch, American Journalist

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"I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated."

"I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated."

Denis Thatcher, British Businessman

9

"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."

"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."

Clifton Fadiman, American Writer

9

"I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays."

"I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays."

Michael Ritchie, American Director

Reading, Work, Job, Planning

9

"If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process."

"If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process."

Bruce Jenner, American Athlete

Reading, Work, Eye, Eyes

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"CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there."

Brit Hume, American Journalist

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"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."

"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."

Chuck Jones, American Director

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"We are all very ready to believe what we like."

"We are all very ready to believe what we like."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

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"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."

"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

9

"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."

"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."

Boris Becker, German Athlete

Reading, Manager, Coach, Television

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"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"

"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"

David Herbert Donald, American Historian

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"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."

"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."

Edward Dmytryk, American Director

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"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! - When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! - When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Books, Joy, Solitude

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"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."

"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Reading, Mind, Imagination, Knowledge

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"Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading."

"Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading."

Jack Prelutsky, American Poet

Reading, Poetry, Prose, Trouble

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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

Leslie Fiedler, American Critic

Reading, Reason, Talk, Worth

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"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

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"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."

"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."

Raymond Chandler, American Writer

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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."

"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."

Daniel J. Boorstin, American Historian

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"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day."

"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day."

Thornton Wilder, American Novelist

Reading, Work, Day, Hearing

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"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"

"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"

Lewis Carroll, English Author

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"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

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"I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself."

"I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself."

Frederick Wiseman, American Director

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"We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between."

"We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between."

Max Cannon, American Artist

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"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."

"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet

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"And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to."

"And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to."

Neil LaBute, American Director

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"In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation."

"In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation."

Stephane Mallarme, French Poet

Reading, Lonely, Present, Quiet

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"I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading."

"I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading."

John Gould, English Writer

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"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

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"I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in."Anybody else except Ackley would've taken the goddamn hint. Not him though..."What the hellya reading?""Goddamn book."He shoved my book back with his hand so that he could see the name on it. "Any good?" he said."This sentence I'm reading is terrific."

"I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in."Anybody else except Ackley would've taken the goddamn hint. Not him though..."What the hellya reading?""Goddamn book."He shoved my book back with his hand so that he could see the name on it. "Any good?" he said."This sentence I'm reading is terrific."

J.D. Salinger, American Politician

Reading, Persistence, Focus, Appreciation

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"If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed."

"If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed."

Mark Haddon, English Novelist

Reading, Bed, Kids

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"All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom."

"All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom."

William C. Bryant, American Poet

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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."

"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."

Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese Writer

Reading, Act, Night, Security

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