Reading Books Quotes - Page 13

• I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.

  Rick Moody

  Book, Reading, Awards

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• I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

  David Herbert Donald

  Book, Reading, Night

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• The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

  Lisa Loeb

  Book, Reading, Humor

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• Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

  Harvey Keitel

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

  Paul Merton

  Reading, Book, Listening

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• I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Mean, Community

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.15, Anchor

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• Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

  Simon Raven

  Book, Boring, Notes

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• I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Poetry, His Love, Love Poems

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• When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

  Hugh Newell Jacobsen

  Reading, Pride, Cities

  "America’s Cities Are Innovating for the Future" by Eric E. Schmidt, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2013.

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• So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Book, Reading

  'Literary Remains' (1836) 'My First Acquaintance with Poets'

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• I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Jobs, Children, Book

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• Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

  Anne Stevenson

  Poetry, Weight, Bears

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• I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Reading, Talking, Choices

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• I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

  Leigh Hunt

  Book, Reading, Weather

  Leigh Hunt (1835). “The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side”, p.183

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• Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Half

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

  Richard de Bury

  Book, Reading, Would Be

  Richard de Bury (1889). “Philobiblon”

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• There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Reading, Home

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• If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Book, Reading, Memorable

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• In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry,
  wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only
  to manslaughter and bawdry.

  Roger Ascham

  Father, Book, Reading

  Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.55

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• The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.

  Pablo Neruda

  Reading, Learning, Way

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• I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Giving Up, Memories, Reading

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• What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

  Anis Mansour

  Book, Reading, People

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• Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have a lingering regard, is the best to carry with you on a journey.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.232, Delphi Classics

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• If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Book, Reading, Would Be

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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