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Reading Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.
- I am always reading or thinking about reading.
- All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
- I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also…
- I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first…
- Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in…
- Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
- The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual…
- Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is…
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