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The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape. — Tom Robbins

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

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

This is the most important principle of reading on the Internet: You must determine for yourself whether or not something is true. — Stephen Downes

It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers. — E. Lockhart

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side. — F Scott Fitzgerald

you start reading on — Sheri Davis

To lend a book is an incitement to theft.
A Reader on Reading p. 281 — Alberto Manguel

Gone are the days when you took Henry James on the train and read it in front of cute guys to impress them. — Amy Poehler

I can survive well enough on my own - if given proper reading material. — Sarah J. Maas

To be successful, suspend your worries and your analytical thinking and just concentrate on reading the script as it is without any self-judgment. — Forbes Robbins Blair

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. — Alan Dean Foster

Renewal of mind begins with mediation on the word of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time is reading a good novel, alone — Rita Stradling

Elizabeth Brown prefered a book to going on a date. While friends went out and danced 'till dawn, she stayed up, reading late. — Sarah Stewart

But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading when I'm old and boring. — John Green

In life, the faster you move on the more people you'll have to say goodbye to — S.E. Sever

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl. — Kelly Link

When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders. — Jesmyn Ward

A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget. — Lauren Hammond

Getting up early in the morning to fix my eyes on Jesus through prayer and reading His Word is like setting — Anne Graham Lotz

The Airwitch had gone from reading nothing in his life to never stopping, buying every novel or history book he could get his hands on. — Susan Dennard

Never mind reading between the lines, try reading what's on them first. — Teri Louise Kelly

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is. — Danny Tyran

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you. — Caterina Scorsone

Being aware is a lot more than just reading a couple of news articles and talking about it on your preferred social network. — Noelle Scaggs

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life. — Ian Somerhalder

[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you. — Fran Lebowitz

Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles. — Lorrie Moore

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life. — Elizabeth Dole

You just read your books and go on a hundred miles away, You ignore me. — Barbara Kingsolver

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure. — Elbert Hubbard

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint. — John Of Salisbury

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home. — John W. Campbell

The moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open. — Lori Wick

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy! — David Baldacci

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. — Ben Hecht

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet. — Chris Hughes

He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. — Virginia Woolf

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. — Thomas Carlyle

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

Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on. — Lisa M. Cronkhite

In the evening I finished reading a book, and because I was feeling so alone, I buried the book on the edge of the forest with a borrowed spade. — Werner Herzog

It means they engineered the spirit to have a negative effect on the imagination. — S.A. Tawks

Right, Jenna said. She was sitting on a desk next to me. She spent most of the class reading those mangas she liked so much. — Rachel Hawkins

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim. — Erik Larson

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon? — Elizabeth Gilbert

Cicero said that even if his lifetime were to be doubled he would still not have time to waste on reading the lyric poets. — Edward Hirsch

I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser. — Rod Stewart

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself. — Missy Franklin

Even reading the news feed on the Internet, you can sense which information is credible among all the thousands of propagandist lies. — Andrey Kurkov

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

... on being somewhat antisocial-
"You have less people at your funeral but you get more reading time. — Robert James Waller

On my bed, I sit down and flip through the cut-up books one by one, reading all the cut-up passages. — Jennifer Niven

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. — John Green

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you. — Robin S. Sharma

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too. — Amit Kalantri

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever. — Salman Rushdie

I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading 'Gossip Girl.' — Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon. — S.A. Tawks

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting. — Clive James

Friend let this be enough. If thou wouldst go on reading. Go thyself and become the writing and the meaning — Angelus Silesius

Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy. — Emma Watson

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. — Italo Calvino

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me. — Andie MacDowell

Reading about myself on 'Perez Hilton' was kind of the weirdest thing ever. — Melissa Benoist

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. — Jim James

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. — Pat Conroy

A single poem, alone
can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
from paradise. — Sanober Khan

We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised. — Pamela Glass Kelly

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable. — Vir Das

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read. — Benjamin Franklin

He didn't take his eyes off me, as if he'd like to see my head mounted on his wall over a sign reading PROBLEM SOLVED. — Karen Chance

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

The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream. — Christopher Jones

I spend so much time on the Internet ... I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading. — Aziz Ansari

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

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. — Pete Fountain

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm reading more than ever. I've started on the left wall of the Carnegie Library and plan to read my way around the room. — Frances Mayes

I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable ... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.' — Zosia Mamet

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. — Cornelia Funke

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone. — Dawn French

From the book:
Fall On Your Knees pg. 124
One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done. — Steven Wright

I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background. — Richard Dawkins

I shed my borrowed life for an hour and put on the borrowed life of the book I'm reading. — David Levithan

The art of reading, as of learning, is this: ... to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential. — Adolf Hitler

My next novel will be the third volume in the John Dies at the End series, and in fact may already exist, again depending on when you're reading this. — David Wong

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. — Groucho Marx

Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school. — Mitch Leigh

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events. — Bob Feller

So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless. — Victor Hugo

Doctors of ancient times used to recommend reading to their patients as a physical exercise on an equal level as walking, running, or ball-playing. — Jean Leclercq

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

As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors. — Hans Zimmer

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

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. — Mary Garden

With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else. — Valerie Cruz