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“I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.”

Knows Wells Body Reading Language My Own Mines Cat Communicate Subtle Signals Body Language Adept

Author:Marge Piercy

“The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.”

Art Reading Fiction Reader Pages Constant Seduction

Author:Marge Piercy

“In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.”

People Book Seems Reading Competition Fewer Reading Books Imaginative Old Days

Author:Douglas Coupland

“There are two magic acts I want to pull off when I write. One is creating a feeling that when you're inside a book, you believe everything you're reading even when you know it's not true. And the second is an extension of that, which is you know it's not true, you know it's not real, but you believe it anyway. And it's that believing of the story that isn't real that attracted me to writing and storytelling in general.”

Knows Want Writing Believe Two Book Real Stories Feelings Reading Magic Creating Storytelling Extensions True You

Author:Markus Zusak

“It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.”

Thinking Writing Wells Book Reading Bits Break Five Pieces Four Reader Brilliant Insane Bits And Pieces

Author:Markus Zusak

“To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What was it like to have been alive then? What were these people like as human beings?”

People Humans Persons Has Beens Book Reading Human Beings Attention Alive Reader

Author:David McCullough

“I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.”

Knows Book Fall Reading Lines Falling In Love Traditional Reading Books Therapeutic

Author:Carrie Fisher

“People don't understand how hard it is to get recognized, how hard it is to get people to read your books. How hard it is to get people to even to understand what they're reading when they're talking to you about their books.”

People Book Hard Reading Talking

Author:Walter Mosley

“The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.”

Book Reading Interesting Poor Very Interesting

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: "That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about murdering your husband's cousin?" And there are, of course, things that aren't in your personal repertoire that you have to somehow understand by reading or watching other things and listening to other people talk about them.”

People Said Courses Reading Listening Husband They Said Cousin Tricky Your Husband Listening To Others Lady Macbeth

Author:Judi Dench

“The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.”

“You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you’re reading G.K. Chesterton, then you’re a Catholic.”

Reading Catholic

Author:Ross Douthat

“Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.”

Reading Prayer

Author:Isidore of Seville

“Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.”

Knows Book Reading Catholic God Knows Only God Knows Spiritual Reading

Author:John Bosco

“Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.”

Doe Has Beens Reading Consciousness Impossible Written Fascinating Phenomenon Elusive Worth Reading

Author:Stuart Sutherland

“I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered it- that no one had ever read it or knew about it. Then one day in her local library she found cards for one or two of my other books. They were full of names- the books were borrowed all the time. She resented this a bit and then walked around the town looking in everybody's face and wondering if they were the ones who were reading my books. That is someone I write for.”

Ifs Writing Two Book Remember Faces Girl Reading Found Names Bits Wonder One Day Letters Towns Library Locals Cards Borrowed

Author:J. P. Donleavy

“I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when he's written it but a couple of weeks later. Then he should see if it pleases anyone else, by sending it to the kind of magazine he likes reading.”

Ifs Thinking Should Trying Kind Matter Young Reading Written Week Produce Poet Couple Please Likes Magazines

Author:Philip Larkin

“A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of the buildings. The faculty's job, in great part, is to teach students how to use a library in a living way. All a student should really need is access to the library and a place to sleep.”

Ifs Way Needs Should Use Jobs Reading Sleep Teach Students Building Library University Clubs Access Discussion Faculty

Book:Ciardi himself: fifteen essays in the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry

Source: Ciardi himself: fifteen essays in the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry

“The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification of the state with a religion, or with religion in general, ...or when the effect of the governmental action is to endorse one religion over another, or to endorse religion in general.”

States Government Action Reading Effects Decided Tests Court Identification Lemons Precedent

Author:Anthony Kennedy

“I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.”

People Knows Giving Wells Doe Might Reading Cutting Minutes Reflection Careful Bread Bread And Butter

Author:Arnold Bennett

“The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in awe of it. Reading should be a joy - fun, fun, fun - not a responsibility, not something you do because society demands it, but something you do because it's a pleasure.”

Want Should Doe Kids Joy Reading Fun Pleasure Responsibility Demand Ancient Storytelling Awe

Author:Natalie Babbitt

“The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.”

Art Book Reading Delight Enlargement

Author:Robertson Davies

“For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.”

Book Reading Mountain Holiday

Author:Sonam Kapoor

“I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.”

May Together Reading Sentences Miserable Length Gathering Musings Pruning Miserable Life

Author:Elizabeth I

“I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.”

Want Believe Reason Government Reading I Believe Stuff I Believe In Mail Always Believe Personal Stuff

Author:George W. Bush

“You can buy a book new, buy it in hardback or wait for the paperback, find it used or as a collectible. I don't mind. What I care about most is that people are reading.”

People Mind Book Care Used Reading Waiting I Care Collectibles

Author:Neil Gaiman

“White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.”

People Reading White Judging Wall Messages

Author:Katherine Losse

“I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead”

“Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.”

Writing Real Reading Becoming Burden Liberation Distraction Drag Email Reading And Writing Real Work Spam Deleting

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the other side. They are used to reading this as an indication of defeat, and a complete mental readjustment is required of them. Within the new terms of struggle, victory has nothing to do with their being able to give more punishment than they take (quite the reverse); victory has nothing to do with their being able to punish the other at all; it has to do simply with being able, finally, to make the other move... Vengeance is not the point; change is.”

People Giving Seems Able Moving Used Reading Sides Term Hurt Struggle Victory Defeat Punishment Engaged Reverse Vengeance Indication

Author:Barbara Deming

“If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.”

Ifs Wells Reading Voice Differences Written Poet Instruments Staring Sheets Humming Sheet Music

Author:Robert Pinsky

“A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.”

Book Reading My Time Print Antiques Print Books

Author:John Hodgman

“Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as their learning, their study and reading would have been to good purpose! But how many in this world care little for the service of God, and perish in their vain learning. Because they choose to be great rather than humble, they perish in their own conceit.”

Ifs Men World Littles Has Beens Care Purpose Reading Study This World Glory Humble Vain Conceit Admirable Passing Away

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather than food for you, engross all your application. Beware of a boundless and sickly appetite for the reading of poems which the nation now swarms withal; and let not the Circaen cup intoxicate you. But especially preserve the chastity of your soul from the dangers you may incur, by a conversation with muses no better than harlots.”

Should May Soul Reading Nations Danger Conversation Pages Passionate Cups Your Soul Preserves Application Appetite Muse Boundless Sauce Chastity Swarms Harlots

Author:Cotton Mather

“Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.”

Ifs Way Needs Book Reading Poet Picks Reading Poetry

Author:A. E. Housman

“I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.”

Source: The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814

“The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.”

Book Reading Realizing Creative Our Lives Fronts Tvs Truth Is Picks Brushes Watching Tv

Author:Adam Carolla

“In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has never been my strong suit, so I actually had to be somewhat more "organized and results-driven" than is my habit. I just made up my mind that I was going to have to read some of these philosophy tomes, and I forced myself to read something like 10 pages a day until I had bashed my way through them.”

Way Mind Made Philosophy Reading Strong Results Cases Habit Pages Research Driven Suits My Way Organized Metaphysics

Author:Neal Stephenson

“As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.”

Reading Actors Scripts

Author:Kevin Nealon

“I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.”

“It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman

“People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.”

People Thinking Way Ideas Reading Lost Interest Clear Negative Criticism Autobiography Bombastic

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.”

Way Country Reality Reading Lost Understanding Materials Capacity Add Extras Layers Marginalized

Author:Yann Martel

“I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.”

Art Reading Class College Magazines Gallery Art Class

Author:Larry Gagosian

“My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.”

Stories Dream Reading Novel Growing Up Growing Tales Fairy Fairy Tale

Author:Irena A. Hoffman

“Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.”

Writing Reading Rooms Pieces Tests Dialogue Spokes Acid Living Room

Author:Anne Tyler

“Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.”

People Trying Firsts Wells Book Play Reading Bits Guitar Manage

Author:Keith Rabois

“You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.”

Ifs Children Ends Facts Care Reading Levels Thirds Importance Grades Third Grade

Author:Kamala Harris

“I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it had never occurred to me to think of them together. I learned that Calvin was the most widely read writer in England in Shakespeare's lifetime. He was translated and published in many editions.”

Thinking Years Together Reading Study England Lifetime Renaissance

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“I actually don't have any fear of people reading Wild and going out unprepared. Because one of the best things that ever happened to me was that I went out unprepared. And when you really think about it, all I did wrong was that I took too much stuff, which is the most common backpacker mistake. The part that I wasn't prepared for is the part you can't prepare for.”

People Thinking Reading Stuff Common Mistake Too Much Happened Prepared Best Things Going Out Unprepared Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

Author:Cheryl Strayed

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