Reading Books Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.

  Eric Holder

  Reading, Reality, Rights

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• I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Funny Things

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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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• As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

  Stanley Crouch

  Reading, Mean, Democracy

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• A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspirational Life, Book

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

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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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• There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Book, Reading, Book Reading

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  Gail Porter

  Paper, Wrists

  "Q: Aren't you too brainy to be a TV presenter? A: Too brainy? That's why all my hair fell out" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2005.

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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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• Anyone should be able to read comics.

  Ted Rall

  Book, Reading, Able

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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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• Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Solitude, Pleasure

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• Never read any book that is not a year old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Years, Book Reading

  "Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters".

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• When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

  C. S. Forester

  Book, Reading, Space

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• I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Fun, Reading, Book

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• I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.

  Bernhard Langer

  Reading, Together, Study

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• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

  James McCosh

  Motivational, Book, Reading

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• Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

  Charles Kingsley

  Reading, Book, Men

  Charles Kingsley (1849). “Twenty-five Village Sermons”, p.254

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• I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

  Lucian

  Reading, Book, Next

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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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• Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love,and with love,there are no rules some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior,others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on relationships but this is all folly.The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Prayer, Book

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