Reading Books Quotes - Page 16

• Reading books is good,
  Rereading good books is better.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Reading, Rereading

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Reading, Rations

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.18, Melville House

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• With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book, Reading, Chance

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• Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

  Peter Ustinov

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

  Chris Ware

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

  Margaret Haddix

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

  Louise Brown

  Book, Reading, People

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• Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.

  Chris Matthews

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 13, 2009.

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• Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

  Anne Rice

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

  Lynn Abbey

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

  Roy Wood

  Music, Book, Reading

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• Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

  M. H. Abrams

  Book, Reading, Hard Work

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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• I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

  Thom Gunn

  Book, Reading, Bisexual

  Thom Gunn (2017). “Selected Poems of Thom Gunn”, p.177, Faber & Faber

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

  Charlie Trotter

  Book, Reading, Okay

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• I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

  Tony Hillerman

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

  Meg Tilly

  Dream, Book, Reading

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• I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

  Jack Vance

  Book, Reading

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• When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

  Kurt Russell

  Book, Reading, Careers

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• You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

  William Lyon Phelps

  New York, Book, Reading

  William Lyon Phelps (1922). “Human Nature in the Bible”

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• My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Book, Reading, Hands

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• Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

  Corbin Bleu

  Book, Reading, Differences

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

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Book, Reading, Lasts

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• Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

  William Styron

  Book, Reading, Forever

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• Anyone should be able to read comics.

  Ted Rall

  Book, Reading, Able

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• Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

  Charles Van Doren

  Book, Reading, Years

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