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Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job. — William Safire

Read works which glorify God - not so that you can change what others think about you, but so that you may get closer to Him! — Jen Selinsky

Looking at someone else's relationship for the answers was like reading about a romance novel hero and expecting to find a carbon copy in real life — Maya Banks

Books make the best ersatz friendships. — Nenia Campbell

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. — Douglas Feith

If reading isn't about communication, it is, in the end, about sharing. But a deferred and fiercely selective kind of sharing. — Daniel Pennac

Life is not about less mistakes but about more trials — S.E. Sever

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. — Laura Miller

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?' — Alex Pettyfer

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words. — Michael Graves

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world. — Marie Dressler

When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both. — Joseph Brodsky

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa. — Sergio Leone

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers. — Jami Attenberg

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books. — P.B. Kerr

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less ... selfish. — Alan Bennett

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. — Hayley Mills

Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it? — Greg Proops

The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him
one of the principal uses of a book. — Susan Sontag

I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children. — Jami Attenberg

I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it. — Juno Temple

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it. — Clive James

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book. — J.K. Rowling

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once? — Bill Willingham

When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options. — Jerry Seinfeld

When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much. — Lauren Willig

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life — George R R Martin

Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad. — Jenny Colgan

Every time I hear about somebody who wins a never-work-again sum in the lottery but keeps his or her day job I think, not a book person. — Amy Smith

Perhaps one of my favorite things about travelling is getting to mark and observe other readers. — Rachel Heffington

Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer. — Kate Morton

There are 2 motives for reading a book; 1. That you enjoy it, 2. that can boast about it on goodreads. — Bertrand Russell

Most of the time, we don't know others; we only know our own ideas about others — S.E. Sever

Some of the best advice my aunt gave me was if you want to find out more about something you read. — Amanda Penland

There's darkness in this world you can't learn about by watching TV and reading books. — Dennis Lehane

Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you. — V.C. Andrews

I have a hunch from reading about old passageways that there may be one or more rooms off this tunnel, Nancy told Captain Rossland. — Carolyn Keene

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. — Henny Youngman

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — Daniel Handler

There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief. — Ally Condie

The best thing about reading is to escape from your life, to be able to live hundreds or even thousands of different lives. — Anna Todd

Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can. — S.A. Tawks

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people. — Lois Lowry

Reading about other peoples' foibles and mistakes was so much easier than living through her own. — Julia Kent

The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about." — David Foster Wallace

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. — Susan Sontag

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script. — Saoirse Ronan

when your heart was hurting, there was something so hopeful about reading a book filled with love. The — Brittainy C. Cherry

My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him. — Willie Geist

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

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. — Italo Calvino

I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof. — Joan Rivers

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel. — Edwin Muir

She had her head in a book. Like me she preferred reading about travel to actually traveling; it was so much more comfortable. — Zanesh Catkin

What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing. — Oprah Winfrey

You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about. — Kristen Bell

I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon! — Juliana Rotich

There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist. — Lyra Parish

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. — Rudyard Kipling

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating. — Lily King

Writing to her from America, her best friend remarked, 'I've stopped reading fiction, I just read about you. — Catherine Bailey

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. — Mike Tyson

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,.. — Stanley Fish

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading. — Sonam Kapoor

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me". — Soren Kierkegaard

I really like reading about how families work together. — Sara Shepard

If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there. — Paul Theroux

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about. — Afrika Bambaataa

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis. — Rosanne Cash

She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to. — Ruth Rendell

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week. — Ashwin Sanghi

He was far more comfortable reading about the lives and ideas of others than describing his own. — Kate Morton

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. — Iain Banks

The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you. — Seth Rogen

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters. — Burn Gorman

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful. — Barbara Park

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it. — Lil' Wayne

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book. — John Bosco

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself. — Michael Stipe

As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read. — Gail Carriger

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people. — Paul Park

Without a doubt,
I must read,
all the books
I've read about.
See the artworks
hung on hooks,
that I have only,
seen in books. — Lang Leav

Who needs to go somewhere when you can read about it. — Pseudonymous Bosch

The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child's hands. Nancie Atwell9 — Kenny Pieper

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet. — Michael Dirda

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother. — Kate Beckinsale

Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud. — Alexandra Cruz

It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus. — Erin Bow

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it. — Rulon Gardner

When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.' — Jack McDevitt

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai. — Ralph Fiennes

If you can't learn about reading and writing from Kurt, maybe you should be doing something else. — Kurt Vonnegut

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark. — Daniel Handler

So just because I like reading about those kinds of guys, doesn't mean I need my real-life guys to act like that. — Colleen Hoover

Reading about other people's delightful lives, however, only brought an unwelcome comparison. — Judith Works

I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did. — Mary Ann Shaffer

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time. — Caroline Kepnes

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak

I'm all about shrimpburgers, reading, and going to the beach. — Sarah Dessen

Reading about another era is like armchair time travel--without the baggage. — CJ Fosdick