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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands. — Bill Vaughan

Never read a book that is not a year old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My early and invincible love of reading
I would not exchange for the treasures of India. — Edward Gibbon

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow. — Siegfried Sassoon

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly. — Gina Barreca

We find ways to comfort one another and to comfort ourselves. And comfort eases, but it does not erase. Until then, we keep reading. — Melissa Febos

Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp. — John Steinbeck

Internationalism' is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership. — Amit Chaudhuri

I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself. — James Lipton

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

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough. — Ann Voskamp

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

Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended. — Peter Burke

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

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. — Martin Luther

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe. — Donald Bradman

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. — Charlotte Bronte

If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

But it's my reading of human nature that a man will cheat in his trade, but not in his hobby. — G.K. Chesterton

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language. — Jamie L. Harding

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing. — Hiro Murai

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

After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented:
That is not even wrong. — Wolfgang Pauli

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C.S. Lewis

Reading is a breezy journey to enjoy, not a whirlwind to escape! — Balroop Singh

I'm glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I've read. — Alberto Caeiro

Reading is for pleasure; it's not another form of social competition. Leave those literary Joneses to it. — Heather Reyes

Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared. 76 — Anita Brookner

True fragrance speaks for itself. It does not require to be pointed out by the bearer. — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book. — Nicole Fende

We must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. — Louis L'Amour

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

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library. — Mason Cooley

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real. — Terry Bradshaw

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress. — David Shields

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will. — Irene Thomas

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

Be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life. — Vincent Van Gogh

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past. — Emmuska Orczy

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads. — Harold Bloom

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. — Beverly Cleary

There are times my stories become - what I feel - not only accessible to hearing me on television, but they make wonderful reading. — Bill Cosby

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man. — Robert A. Heinlein

Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful. — Steven A. Cohen

It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. — S.I. Hayakawa

Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire. — Stephen D. Krashen

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up. — Roy Wood

I do not remember a time when I could not read, nor any time when reading was not a joy and a solace. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them. — Paulo Freire

Reading is an activity that not only expands the mind but also enhances the soul and cultivates ones character. — Divine G.

From Anthony, reading, Can you let me know now? Sanchez leaves for weekend if we're not on. She felt a guilty pang. It's — Lisa Scottoline

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay. — Serina Hartwell

Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head. — Rachel Miner

A person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one. — Laura Vazquez

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. — Ramakrishna

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age. — Charles Spurgeon

I'm not even speaking to people any more; I just want to be reading my Kindle the whole time! — Sophie McShera

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much. — Mason Cooley

Just imagine what you are losing just because you are not reading! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I need to experience books, not just read them. — Lauren Morrill

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

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant. — Ali Smith

You're either reading a book or you're not. — Jonathan Franzen

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae. — Erri De Luca

Clothes does not make the person; reading does. — Laxleyval Sagasta

[...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic — Ben Oliveira

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.' — Vikram Seth

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing. — Julia Glass

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter

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

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The journey is the mystery ... the destination the answer. If you don't have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book. — Shannon L. Alder

It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices. — Brandon Sanderson

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'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book. — Craig Finn

she had been moping around school, not wanting to do anything besides painting and reading books. — Kim Richardson

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. — Karin Slaughter

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

It's not the amount of Bible you read, it's the amount of Bible you believe. — Carlos A. Rodriguez

It is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading ... — Jane Austen

To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind. — Kaela Marooney

Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production. — Clive Thompson

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know. — Azar Nafisi

Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy is not? — Sarah Arthur

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter — Jim Rohn

In a country where people are not reading and thinking much, the sun is already set! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough. — Sylvia Plath

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) — Christopher Nolan

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being. — Clifton Fadiman

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. — Karl Kraus

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

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. — Daniel Pennac