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Reading Quotes
"I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it."
"Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process."
"It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words."
"I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along."
"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."
"I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling."
"You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets."
"All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself."
"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining."
"In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading."
"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."
"I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why."
"You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings."
"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."
"I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself."
"Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?"
"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread."
"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
"I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself."
"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems."
"I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed."
"I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together."
"The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points."
"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."
"We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between."
"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write."
"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
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