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

Children Book Remember Reading Sleep Jungle Neglected Sleeping Beauty Jungle Book Neglected Child

“The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.”

Years Different School Remember Reading High School Adults Juniors Junior High High School Junior

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is wise to remember that when we are reading letters never intended for us, any problems of understanding are ours and not theirs.”

Problem Remember Reading Understanding Wise Letters

Author:Marcus Borg

“I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.”

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Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!”

Men Feels Long Two Whole Seems Would Be Age Remember Reading Effort Emotion Too Much Drinking Admire Excess Thorough Bruises Stimulation

Book:Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].

Source: Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].

“I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.”

Use Remember Reading Language Fellows Good Man

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's writing always appealed to me: he took outlandish ideas and made them seem completely within the realm of possibility. I remember reading "Jurassic Park" and feeling like: "Oh, yeah - no, that's totally happening right now. They're bringing back dinosaurs!"”

“I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.”

Age Remember Young Reading Parent Ability Levels Taught Speed Impressed Comprehension Creepy

Author:J. J. Abrams

“I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.”

Men Said Book Remember Reading Differences Saws Written Men And Women Time Travel Traveler Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.”

Remember Reading Realizing Records Tvs Late Teens Remember When Watching Tv

Author:Jonny Greenwood

“I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.”

“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and my books are the first items I pack into a suitcase. I am the person who family and friends call when they need a book recommendation or cannot remember who wrote Heidi. My identity as a person is so entwined with my love of reading and books that I cannot separate the two.”

“I remember reading Disturbia, one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go "Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?"”

Want Firsts Remember Guy Reading House Scripts

Author:Alex Pettyfer

“I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo”

Way Long Stills Hard Remember Reading Imagine Blood Understood Manage Necks Imagine That Economist Adequate Zoos Pumps Giraffe

Author:Robert Solow

“The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.”

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Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.”

Way Book Different Whole Remember Reading Emotional Theory Mom Intelligent My Mom Eight Different Ways Multiple Multiple Intelligences

Author:Lynn Shelton

“A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that.The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.”

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Author:Matt Haig

“Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.”

Book Remember Reading Literature Objects Reading Books Aphorism Salt Maxims

Author:John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

“I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.”

Book Ends Remember Reading Father Wind Grew Grew Up Dependent Exception Hospitals Household Boast Stepmothers Wind In The Willows

Author:John le Carre

“It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.”

I Can Remember Reading Written Meetings Conclusion Ministers Prime Prime Minister Only Time

Author:Michael Heseltine

“I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.”

People Remember Reading Family And Friends Rosa

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Do you remember that kid that had sex with his high school teacher? I was reading online that he died today. He died from hi-fiveing.”

Humor Kids Today School Funny Remember Reading Sex Teacher High School Died Online School Teachers High School Teachers

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.”

Important Play Remember Choices Reading Challenges Race Roles Written Drug Scripts Latino What's Important Maids Dealer Drug Dealers

Author:Eva Mendes

“I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading, I would say, "To each his own."”

Remember Reading Reader Aunt

Author:Sefi Atta

“The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?'”

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Author:Cate Blanchett

“It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.”

Source: Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806

“I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.”

Years Wanted Past Remember Reading Sentences Journal

Author:Richard Powers

“I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.”

Firsts Remember Reading Mom My Mom Impression Magazines Cinema Italian Trash Paparazzi First Impression

Author:Wim Wenders

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:J. P. Donleavy

“People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remember reading some Adrienne Rich quote where she talks about how important it was just to watch bubbles rise in a glass.”

People Important Dream Remember Culture Reading Watches Rich Glasses Distraction Bubbles Just Being Myopic

Author:Karen Russell

“I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.”

People Ifs Giving Writing Trying Said Real Remember Lying Reading Fiction Research Details Mess Interviews Nonfiction Credibility

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad one. I try to remember that when reading someone else's work.”

People Writing Trying Book Remember Reading Difficult Writing A Book Book Writing Admonition

Author:Thomas L. Dumm

“What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.”

Ifs Remember Reading Addiction Sentences Loaded Love To Read

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.”

Years Firsts Two Book Moments School Remember Three Reading High School My Family Two Years Three Years Chapters Wrath Grapes Turtles Learning English Aha Moment

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“The truth is that I used to read J.J. bedtime stories. He came up to me at the FOX commissary about four years ago and he said, "Do you remember what you gave me for my Barmitzvah?" I said no. He said, "You gave me the annotated Sherlock Holmes and my son is reading it now." It was the gift that kept on giving.”

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Author:Nicholas Meyer

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