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

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. — Voltaire

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. — Henry Ward Beecher

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence. — David Halberstam

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

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want. — Justine Larbalestier

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

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

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

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. — Edith Sitwell

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall

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

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content. — Sara Sheridan

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

Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin ... — Suzanne Weyn

I rise near dawn, make a strong cup of coffee, wander to my desk and come fully awake by reading something written the day before. — Daniel Woodrell

He nods, his eyes on her like he's reading a book he's just getting to the end of and can't be interrupted. — Alden Bell

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

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

Never underestimate the power of giving a book! — Carmela Dutra

I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range. — Garth Nix

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely. — Lolo Jones

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

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

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. — Edward Gibbon

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

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

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. — David Hume

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

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

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

I took a speed reading course and my speed shot up to 43 pages a minute, but my comprehension plummeted. — Brian Regan

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

You learn a lot by reading and even more by sharing. — Andrew-Knox B Kaniki

When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again. — Rumer Godden

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

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering. — Desiderius Erasmus

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

It's like you're reading a book and every time someone's tearing the pages. — Sara Shepard

This even doesn't worth and one dollar just for reading and viewing it! — Deyth Banger

Letter scrambling and trouble reading is just a small part of dyslexia. It is also an auditory processing problem. — Philip Schultz

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

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window. — Gail Caldwell

Because you are alive and reading this
Anything is Possible — Steven Aitchison

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

Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives ... our vicarious way
to feel alive. — V.C. Andrews

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. — Frank Crane

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

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

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

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines. — Friedrich Kittler

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

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

Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity. — Donald J. Bingle

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley

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

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up. — Irena A. Hoffman

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. — Charles Churchill

So what else you into, then? I mean except reading and writing, talking like the Queen, and dressing like my granddad? — Alexis Hall

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked. — Michael Pena

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment. — Sandra Cisneros

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

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

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. — Juliette Binoche

And books -- she swallows like dumplings. — Sholem Aleichem

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old. — Joan Collins

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

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

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Learning to read is one of the most extraordinary gifts you'll ever receive, so open up God's Word and read the most extraordinary book ever written. — J.E.B. Spredemann

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author. — James Jeffrey Roche

Tarot helps us look within ourselves to understand our emotions, the reasoning behind our words and conduct, and the source of our conflicts. — Benebell Wen

Besides, if they continued where they left off, Faith would finish reading the book and Alec would be snoring next to her. — Kelly Moran

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

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

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover. — Julie Kagawa

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. — Liam Neeson

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do. — Corey Feldman

One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified. — Cathleen Schine

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

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

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H.L. Mencken

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

Read positive books; see positive things and surround yourself with positive thinkers; life will be full with positivity. — Amit Ray

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

If, when reading and walking at the same time, he bumped into a lamppost, he would apologize and check that the lamppost was unhurt. — Katherine Rundell

If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons. — Murray Pura

Reading and writing were a dangerous business; they made you think. — Gemma Malley

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

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. — Tom Stoppard

Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience. — William Gaddis

He'd seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon. — Sheri Webber

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita