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“I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.”

Thinking Knows Way Mean Important Ends Happens Reading Novel Middle Built Anna Predictability

Author:Scarlett Thomas

“There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.”

People Knows Wells Children Book Happens Reading Written Code Giants Phenomenon Midnight Nobody Knows Well Written Da Vinci Code

Author:Denise Mina

“I think every citizen in Burlington has a right to voice their opinion and participate in the local political process no matter who they are or what they are or where they come from or what their religious beliefs are. But for me to base all of my decisions based on my reading of the Holy Bible just isn't going to happen.”

Thinking Matter Happens Political Reading Belief Process Voice Religious Decision Opinion Citizens Holy Bible Locals Religious Belief Holy Bible

Author:Tim Scott

“When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.”

Book Happens Moving Reading Next Finished Chapters Next Chapter

Author:Stephen Reid

“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.”

“Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That's part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen.”

People World Made Happens Pain Reading Challenges Perspective Difficulty Extraordinary Injustice Hunger Things Happen Ordinary People Good In The World

Author:Tony Robbins

“Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.”

Knows May Real Happens Reading Language Nature Opposites Hasty Syntax Intricacy

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.”

Stories Happens Universe Reading Next Waiting Possibility Goes On Divides Verses Intervention Every Second

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.”

Happens Reading Literature Process Practice Reader Bookshelves

Author:Terry Eagleton

“When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.”

Play Happens Reading Things Happen

Author:Al Pacino

“The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.”

Ifs Persons Important Happens Reading Happened Ordinary Psychedelic Psychedelic Experience Ordinary Person

Author:Terence McKenna

“[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.”

Ifs Important Happens Mother Reading Newspapers Reading Newspapers

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“As an author, I don't really think too much about being a celebrity. It's not like being a movie star or a TV star. It's not as if people recognize me when I walk down the street. That hardly ever happens, and it's just as well. But it is great when people know my books, when I walk through an airport and see them in the bookstore, or when I see someone reading a book on a plane or on a train, and it's something I've written. That's a wonderful feeling.”

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Author:Rick Riordan