I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
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The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
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The weird job of acting is that it is so simple. You just see the person in the situation. It is whatever… — Jason Isaacs Copy Share Image
Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
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I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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Reading was really my only training in fiction writing. I never took a class or read a book on how to write.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
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In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous,… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time… — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and… — Charlie Ergen Copy Share Image
There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
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For every time a loved one leaves your life two new chapters begin; Yours, and Theirs. But don't worry about the reading,… — Tyler Urann Copy Share Image
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I started reading all these men's magazines, trying to follow all the tips: what you're supposed to wear, what you're supposed to… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
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It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
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Nelson's Mandela own sense of himself was a very humble reading, [different] from how the world read him. And, quite often, you… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
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