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It's a new day: Full of promise and love. The only thing that can take away that great feeling is - reading the news or speaking to people. — Bob Saget

Reading has always been the great love of my life. — Darren Shan

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular. — Martin Luther

A man who does not read miss great wisdom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights. — Mason Cooley

I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure. — Cara Buono

Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading. — Margaret Atwood

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes — Harold Bloom

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes. — Dodie Smith

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse

In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself ... I see with a myriad of eyes,but it is still I who see. — C.S. Lewis

Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell

Above all things
read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. — Ngaio Marsh

Greatest companion is found in reading great books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering. — Anne Lamott

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz — William L.K.

A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want. — Jane Austen

Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga. — David Benioff

I get a glimpse of the mind of many souls from their sacred books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my life. — Anton DiSclafani

I spent most of my free time reading. It was a great escape from reality — Teresa Mummert

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. — Charles Lamb

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt. — Stephen Chbosky

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

Your life is a message someone is reading every day. Give a bold message of God's great love and the greatness we are designed for! #BEMORE — Sandi Krakowski

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway. — Larry McMurtry

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. — George W. Bush

Holly Barker series was a great read for me. Stuart gives short chapters and continued action all through his books. — Stuart Woods

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. — Charles Bukowski

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. — Francois Truffaut

Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone. — Phil Thompson

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once. — Karl Kraus

Realizing that your emotions and experiences aren't yours alone is one of the great powers of reading. — Cara Nicoletti

Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading. — Mortimer J. Adler

great books are the ones we need — Charles Bukowski

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. — Garth Stein

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839] — Edgar Allan Poe

When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem. — Liam Neeson

A delight to read is a great treasure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him. — Evelyn Underhill

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action. — George Pierce Baker

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett

So many great books to read, when will I finish reading all these books? — Lailah Gifty Akita

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. — Anthony Trollope

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. — Harold Bloom

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self. — Harold Bloom

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. — Andre Maurois

A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone. — David Shields

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves ... self-discipline with all of them came first. — Harry Truman

Linda Heavner Gerald was selected as Winner in 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading — Linda Heavner Gerald

It feels great to read but greater to write. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it. — Bill Vaughan

Life's adventures make great reading! — Denise Robbins

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read. — Terry Hayes

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults. — Henri Nouwen

...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library. — Jan Louch

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. — Thornton Wilder

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

For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety. — Joyce Rachelle

Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! ... — H.G.Wells

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors
we hope
of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt. — Geri Halliwell

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone. — Mary Pope Osborne

Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier. — Amanda Hocking

We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.' — Edie Falco

All these sorts of book feature in The Year of Reading Dangerously, which could yet be called Fifty Shades of Great. — Andy Miller

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

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege. — Max Casella

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great. — Sam Amidon

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so. — Julianna Baggott

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

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds. — Edmund Hillary

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer. — Amity Gaige

By reading, we will know the minds of great soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Books are great companion. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it. — Joey Santiago

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. — John Adams

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

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I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer. — Dree Hemingway

I've lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material. — Lisa Kleypas

One great book can change the perspective and understanding of a whole nation — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. — Gilbert Murray

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. — Joseph Joubert

So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it. — Carla H. Krueger

A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages. — John Hill Burton

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't. — Carla H. Krueger

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens. — Al Pacino

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. — Amy Tan

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child. — Ann Brashares

My great-aunt ... said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens ... She was right. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. — William Safire

Reading great books gives insight to the mind of great souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Edward Abbey