Reading Quotes

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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend… — Julian Assange
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that… — Paul Auster
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that… — Isaac Asimov
A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no… — Margaret Atwood
A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's… — Margaret Atwood
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted… — Margaret Atwood
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us.… — Margaret Atwood
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your… — Margaret Atwood
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a… — Paul Auster
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the… — Irving Babbitt
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. — Francis Bacon
Learn as much by writing as by reading. — Lord Acton
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. — David Bailey
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a… — Russell Baker
'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like… — Christian Bale

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