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Reading Quotes
"When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics."
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"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."
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"If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it."
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"The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind."
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"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."
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"Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act."
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"When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared."
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"I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing."
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"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment."
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"But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy."
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"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider."
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"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates."
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"And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to."
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"A finished product is one that has already seen its better days."
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"When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
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"Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do."
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"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants."
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"The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification."
"I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch."
"I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices."
"Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect."
"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55."
"I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know."
"The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write."
"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."
"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
"Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise."
"In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!"
"That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before."
"I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author."
"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."
"I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed."
"It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic."
"I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions."
"In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."
"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
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