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Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past. — Brad Meltzer

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. — Robert Duvall

The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling. — Maureen Corrigan

Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach. — Lauren Willig

I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second. — Taylor Swift

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

If you are reading this, you will get what you want. Believe in yourself and that's inspiration. — Chandan Sharma

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later. — Joyce Carol Oates

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. — John Ruskin

No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell. — Alcoholics Anonymous

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading. — Kevin Hart

In those days, there was no money to buy books. — Ernest Hemingway,

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book. — Barbara Hambly

Don't waste your time with procrastinating, because that time you won't get back. Be productive, even if it means sitting in your bed and reading :D — Anonymous

My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine. — Marilynne Robinson

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

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. — Lee Child

I remember reading a fascinating article in the New York Times Magazine once where this guy said... Every woman has the exact love life she wants — Elizabeth Young

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus. — Conor Oberst

Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight. — Ernie J Zelinski

I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world. — Erri De Luca

From May 1717 to April 1718, Voltaire sat comfortably in the infamous prison insulting the Regent and reading Homer. — Jessica Powell

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. — T. S. Eliot

Reading in no way obliges us to understand. — Jacques Lacan

Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads — Ronald T. Potter-Efron

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life. — Katherine Paterson

Read in oreder to live — Gustave Flaubert

Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile? — Richelle E. Goodrich

Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma. — Kelly Armstrong

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it — Kathy Acker

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact. — Alison Croggon

I have wander in many minds through the pages of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There were no books in the Afterwards, which the people thought was some serious bullshit. — Amber Sparks

If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer. — Marcia Gay Harden

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. — Edward Gibbon

I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk louder, then!" — Mitch Hedberg

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. — Harold Bloom

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. — Laurence J. Peter

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications. — Manuel Rivas

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her. — Mary Papas

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. — Will Rogers

Consider reading an inspirational book or listen to a podcast every day. You will maintain a library of positive thoughts in your head. — Timi Nadela

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep. — Bob Edwards

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries. — Denise Mina

Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading. — Emilie And Stephanie

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive. — Chaim Potok

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

Never interrupt someone who is reading because they're no longer in your world. — J.A. George

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while. — Malorie Blackman

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. — C.S. Lewis

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one. — William Hazlitt

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story. — Amy Engel

On getting lost in a book.
Set adrift
A life unknown
Connections form
Love is sewn — Patty Wiseman

That is dreamreading. As the birds leave south or north in their season, the Dreamreader has dreams to read. — Haruki Murakami

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading. — Billy Collins

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. — William Gaddis

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college. — Tom Perrotta

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves. — Sarah Van Arsdale

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts. — Pat Conroy

In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME. — Rick Yancey

I focus on the words in front of me and continue reading the book that has now turned me into a voyeur through no fault of its own. — Ella Frank

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead. — Jeanette Winterson

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 off the names in rotation, I called out each morning the guard for the day. We had in the — James B. Gillett

Reading should be in proportion to thinking, and thinking in proportion to reading. — Nathanael Emmons

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings. — Sylvain Tesson

Other good reading from Japan includes Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen, with its heroine who finds whatever comfort she can in food; Miyuki — Nancy Pearl

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it by involving you in sport. — Helen DeWitt

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too. — Caroline Kennedy

However it happens, the appeal of the books we return to is often, at least in part, a fascination with what we can't quite reach. — Peter Turchi

If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor. — Dov Davidoff

Thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding,
Who taught me betimes to love working and reading. — Isaac Watts

Reading her reviews kept his memory of her alive in a way he probably shouldn't want. — Rainbow Rowell

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books. — Markus Zusak

In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children. — Norman Geisler

Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors — Robert Asprin

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

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me. — Michel De Montaigne

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order. — Hisham Matar

After all, when you think of it, nothing is stronger in the world...and weaker--than a word! — Ivan Turgenev

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class — Francine Prose

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water. — Alexander Woollcott

Primo Levi once said, "I write in order to rejoin the community of mankind." Reading is a private act, but it joins us across continents and time. — Azar Nafisi

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. — Alberto Manguel

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading. — Amy Bloom

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading. — Alan Clark

She'd majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that. — Rainbow Rowell

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world
it is like operetta in prose
all so flowery and heavenlike. — Marsden Hartley

It's very silly," she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it. — Henry James

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

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book. — Rob Brezsny

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

She's been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from what you might do — Chad Harbach

Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her. — Cassandra Clare

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

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. — Marcel Proust