Start Reading Quotes
29 quotes by 26 authors
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My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
— Jane Birkin
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I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit,…
— Gillian Flynn
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I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
— M. John Harrison
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... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly…
— Leonhard Euler
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I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was…
— Samuel West
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's…
— Tao Lin
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Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad…
— Karen Armstrong
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She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to start reading her…
— Tim Tharp
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And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading.…
— Jean M. Auel
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When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to…
— Jo Nesbo
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Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I…
— Geoffrey Rush
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Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!
— Keegan Allen
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I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you…
— Jenny Agutter
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E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five…
— Anne Lamott
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't…
— Salman Rushdie
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All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when…
— Diane Setterfield
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
— C.S. Lewis
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I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you…
— C.S. Lewis
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On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine…
— James Frey
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Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with…
— Carol Shields
Who Wrote These Start Reading Quotes
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