Quotes and Sayings About Reading
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
-- A. C. Benson -
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
-- A. E. HotchnerSource : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press
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Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.
-- A. Edward Newton -
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
-- A. J. JacobsSource : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
-- A. R. Ammons -
Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.
-- A. S. Byatt -
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
-- A. S. W. Rosenbach -
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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
-- A.C. Grayling -
After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
-- Aaron BelzSource : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.
-- Aaron CoplandSource : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.23, Penguin
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I really wished he hadn't made me hate to read the Bible. Having it shoved down my throat all my life had made me bitter toward reading it. I believed it, but my dad had used it to his benefit too many times and ignored the parts in there that would point out his wrongs. Like judging Beau without even knowing him. That was in the Bible too.
-- Abbi Glines -
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I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.
-- Abbie CornishSource : "'Klondike's' Abbie Cornish, Johnny Simmons on Finding Gold in History". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 22, 2014.
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My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
-- Abigail SpencerSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
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As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
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A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
-- Adam Gopnik -
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I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.
-- Adam Sandler -
I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?
-- Adam Sandler -
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.
-- Adam Young -
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Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.
-- Adora Svitak -
Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.
-- Adrian Desmond -
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The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.
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I even love the smell of books.
-- Adriana TrigianiSource : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.4, Ballantine Books