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““Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.”

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Author:Mark Leyner

“I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.”

Book Girl Reading One Thing Kalamazoo

Author:Mary MacLane

“Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.”

Feelings Reading Fundamentals

Author:Michelle Malkin

“I do a lot of readings.”

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Author:Paul Muldoon

“Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.”

Way Feels Different Sometimes Reading Sides Creative Materials Different Ways Fuel Favourite Firing Synapses

Author:Raine Maida

“Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.”

Ifs Knows Want Should Persons Reading Right Person

Author:Jodie Foster

“I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.”

Thinking Feels Stories Body Reading Next My Own Steps Reader Creating Defined Next Steps

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.”

Kind Littles Reading Bits College Little Bit My Time Loner Weirdo

Author:Zosia Mamet

“I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.”

Persons Done Stories Bigs Running Reading Mouths Bunch Spoken Word

Author:Laurie Notaro

“I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?”

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Author:Alexei Navalny

“I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.”

Thinking Way Together Jobs Joy Reading Actors Particular Scripts Woven Joy Of Reading

Author:Jeremy Northam

“I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.”

Bigs Culture Reading Novel Crime Youth Industry Reader Becoming Late Innocent Transition Fascinated Keith Reversal Youth Culture

Author:Jo Nesbo

“The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.”

People World Looks Sometimes Whole Feelings Reading Waiting Loses Talking Morning This World Happenings My Friends Journalist

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.”

Feels Book Reading Sun My Favorite Manly Favorite Book Sun Also Rises

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.”

People Faces Reading Understood Magazines Reading Magazines

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.”

Able Night Reading Felt Sleep Tree Security Mountain Forests Justify Huckleberry

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.”

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Author:Marisha Pessl

“I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.”

Ifs Reading Sports Grew Grew Up Newspapers Checks Sections Wrestler

Author:Michael Pena

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.”

Thinking Mind Country Truth Reading Materials Citizens Fellows

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.”

Needs God Reading Religious Learning Information Blessing Negative Gods Will Bless Goddess Disturbing Discarded Learning By Doing Need God

Book:Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

Source: Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

“Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."”

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Author:Luis Walter Alvarez

“The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.”

World Whole Reading Common Mankind Events Beats Newspapers Reactions Civilized Pulse Common Man Simultaneous

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.”

Reading Fashion Obsessed Makeup Love Of Reading History Of Fashion

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.”

Giving Persons Book Reading Bookstores Certificates Personal Things

Author:Erik Larson

“I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.”

Thinking Mean Seems Reading Individual Poet Ordinary Say Anything Pedestrians Poetry Reading

Author:James Laughlin

“I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Whole Reading Differences Poet Personality Reader Sitting

Author:James Laughlin

“I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.”

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Author:Sasha Pieterse

“I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.”

Mind Littles Used Reading Tedious Reading More

Author:Billie Piper

“I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.”

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Author:Francine Pascal

“I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.”

Ideas Reading Heard College Fascinated Rapture

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.”

People Home Reading My Family Let Me Dinner Interviews Signing

Author:Kathy Reichs

“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 said, 'I have to be in this movie.”

Feels Said Sometimes Moments Hands Reading Four Pages Scripts

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.”

Inspiration Reading Fiction Inspired Nonfiction Wellspring Fiction And Nonfiction

Author:James Rollins

“No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.”

Ifs Knows Book Enough Might Reading Literature Term Vampire Gateways

Author:Josh Radnor

“I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.”

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Author:Josh Radnor

“I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.”

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Author:Keri Russell

“I can't actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don't think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I'm reading, I think, 'Oh good. That's what's supposed to be happening.”

Thinking Want I Can Whole Jobs Reading Break Cold Happenings Supposed To Be Sweat Relaxed

Author:Lily Rabe

“I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.”

Long Reading Evening Baths Like Being Alone

Author:Shonda Rhimes

“We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.”

Believe Book Reading Pieces Never Expect

Author:Ali Smith

“I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.”

Stories Reading Novel Impact Narrative Reading Novels

Author:Dana Spiotta

“I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.”

Thinking Knows Book Ideas Seems Reading Technological Advancement Technological Advancement

Author:Garth Stein

“I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.”

Book Reading Reader Conversation Love Of Reading

Author:Garth Stein

“As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.”

Years Children Book Ends Reading Fantasy Series Endless Feds Phases Rip Fed Up Fantasy Books Old Things Goblin Rigour Same Old Thing

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.”

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Author:Danny Strong

“I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.”

Thinking Littles Matter Culture Reading Environment Listening

Author:David Sylvian

“I try to deal with my serious reading before work.”

Trying Reading Deals Serious

Author:Donna Shalala

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