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Reading Quotes by Nick Hornby
- I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
- When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.
- It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some…
- All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You…
- Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through,…
- Reading begets reading.
- Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage…
- Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while…
- So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is…
- Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing…
- Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What…
- No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something to be learned.…
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