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“For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.”

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Author:Elizabeth Strout

“My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.”

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Author:Eric Stoltz

“I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.”

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Author:Fred Saberhagen

“You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.”

Knows Writing Book Ends Reading Reading Or Writing

Author:Lynda Barry

“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”

Writing Book Funny Reading Admire

Author:Anatole France

“If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.”

Ifs Real Reading Nice Exercise Weather Homebodies

Author:Jeremy Sumpter

“I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.”

World Want Book Reading Novel Crime End Times Spend Time Good Book Crime Novels

Author:Maj Sjowall

“It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.”

Writing Order Reading Grades

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.”

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Author:R. A. Salvatore

“I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.”

Writing Reading Directors Screenplays

Author:Rupert Sanders

“My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.”

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“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.”

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Author:Scarlett Thomas

“I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.”

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Author:Bruno Tonioli

“I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.”

World Looks Whole Reading Grew Travel Grew Up South Bottom Maps South Africa Encyclopedia

Author:Charlize Theron

“The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.”

Reading Speak Views Organization Experts Soviet Overdue Democratization

Author:E. P. Thompson

“As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, "Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!"”

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Author:Natsuki Takaya

“I don't want little kids reading my comics.”

Want Littles Kids Reading Little Kid Reading For Kids

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.”

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Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.”

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Author:Amy Waldman

“I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.”

Real Bigs Reading Fans Sitting Tables Scripts Sitting Around Sitting Around A Table

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.”

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Author:Kerry Washington

“I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.”

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Author:Mike White

“... teaching cannot be a process of transference of knowledge from the one teaching to the learner. This is the mechanical transference from which results machinelike memorization, which I have already criticized. Critical study correlates with teaching that is equally critical, which necessarily demands a critical way of comprehending and of realizing the reading of the word and that of the world, the reading of text and of context.”

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Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.”

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Author:Paulo Freire

“A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.”

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!”

Inspirational Reading Possibility Flower Buddhism Endless Immortality Butterfly

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.”

Thinking Writing Young Reading Enjoy Ought Aspiring Writers

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.”

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Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.”

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Author:Lance Loud

“I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.”

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Author:Lois Lowry

“I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read "The Giver" now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.”

People Thinking Writing Children Book Kids Reading Audience Giver

Author:Lois Lowry

“I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.”

Made Done Reading Gone

Author:Melanie Lynskey

“I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.”

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Author:Donald Miller

“From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.”

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Author:Matt Mullenweg

“I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.”

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Author:Matt Mullenweg

“We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.”

Ifs Knows Should Reading Wonderful Exercise Treated

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.”

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Author:William Mapother

“It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'”

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Author:Breckin Meyer

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.”

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Author:Denise Mina

“People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.”

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Author:Denise Mina

“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.”

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Author:Denise Mina

“The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.”

People Believe Stills Hard Facts Reading Hard To Believe Loving Something

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.”

Book Reading Conversation News Asking Recommendations Exchanging

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.”

Reading Danger Particular Idolatry Overprotective

Author:N. T. Wright

“I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Moments Reading Left Very Good Bus Tubes Left Alone

Author:Samuel West

“I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.”

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Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.”

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Author:Rachel Zoe

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