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• I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

  Mason Cooley

  Book, Reading, Dieting

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• I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  New York, Book, Reading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Reading, Advice

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• First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

  Hortense Calisher

  Dream, Book, Reading

  Hortense Calisher (1974). “Herself”

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• If it was a biopic about Glenn Greenwald, I would have immersed myself more fully in his personal life and gotten to know him as much as I could, but because it was much more about his relationship to this particular situation, to The Guardian, to Laura Poitras, and to Ewen MacAskill, and Edward Snowden, I was able to really learn a lot about him from reading his book and reading his many articles and accounts of that time.

  Zachary Quinto

  Reading, Book, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation to our own world perception and set of values.

  Amalia Kahana-Carmon

  Book, Reading, Perception

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• I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

  Nick Cave

  Book, Reading, School

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• whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.

  Eve Merriam

  Book, Reading, Way

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• Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

  Arnold Bennett

  Art, Book, Reading

  1896 Journal entry,15 Oct.

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• When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'

  Jennifer Aniston

  Movie, Girl, Book

  "A Woman We Love: Jennifer Aniston" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Book, Reading

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• A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reading, Lexicographer

  A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

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• The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Reading, Understanding

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• You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.

  Will Rogers

  Reading, Book, Two

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• I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

  Maxwell Perkins

  War, Book, Reading

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• I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".

  Karl Urban

  Book, Reading, Imagination

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• I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.

  Kurt Cobain

  Book, Reading, Wells

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• By believing that only some of our students will ever develop a love of books and reading, we ignore those who do not fall into books and reading on their own. We renege on our responsibility to teach students how to become self-actualized readers. We are selling our students short by believing that reading is a talent and that lifelong reading behaviors cannot be taught.

  Donalyn Miller

  Believe, Book, Fall

  Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.21, John Wiley & Sons

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• Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Book, Reading, Guessing

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• If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.

  William Gerhardie

  Appreciation, Book, Reading

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• The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

  Serge Schmemann

  Art, Reading, Book

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• I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

  Anatole France

  Book, Reading, Easy

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.6, Anatole France

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• I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Stars, Book, Reading

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and most of the night.

  Bertrand Russell

  Book, Reading, Night

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