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To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry. — N. T. Wright

Any one of us could be made to look a monster, with selective readings of our history. — Abigail Haas

Public poetry readings were known to be a rough business, especially when presenting new material. A man could lose a lot more than just his pride. — Cynthia Hand

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books ... — Mohsin Hamid

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers. — Jami Attenberg

I do a lot of readings. — Paul Muldoon

There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue. — Rick Moody

It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings. — Ann Beattie

Every new morning brings new mercy, new love and new grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Festus, good news!' he shouted. 'Our navigation readings are completely messed up! — Rick Riordan

I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky. — Felice Picano

...all readings are provisional, and that maybe we read heroines for what we need from them at the time. — Samantha Ellis

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. — Thomas Carlyle

I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject. — Wolfgang Tillmans

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part. — Robin Wright

The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings — Joseph Campbell

He finally had a reason to live, just in time to die. — Lisa Kessler

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater. — A.R. Ammons

I thought you only had eyes for your ship."
God, she was beautiful. "Until I met you. — Lisa Kessler

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it. — Lynn Redgrave

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings. — Mary Oliver

She smiled, and his dead heart warmed.
One smile would never be enough. — Lisa Kessler

One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise. — Jewel Spears Brooker

Once I started first grade, I started going to Emmanuel Baptist Church regularly. I went to Sunday school. We had Bible readings and things like that. — Wesley Clark

A simple token carries the significance of a diamond — Talia G. Cano

Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body. — Richard Steele

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings. — Jeff Goldblum

We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away. — Buck Henry

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. — Leonard Cohen

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings. — Taiye Selasi

Hope is flourishing flower. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But then, it is the mark of a good book that it rewards many readings, is it not? — Steven Brust

Happy Readings Y'all! — Lia Gerber

[Concerning Lyotard's ideology:]... Theory ought to be recognized as part of the problem, not as a potential solution. — Bill Readings

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

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

If you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space! — Beryl Broekman

I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings. — Aimee Bender

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. — Mark Ruffalo

I do Q&As, not readings. — Martha Grimes

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings. — Donald Hall

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays. — Jeffrey Jones

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years. — Joss Whedon

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate. — Derrick Bell

I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious. — Dennis Hopper

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me. — Melanie Lynskey

I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it. — Anjelica Huston

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. — Henry Miller

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience. — Jesse Eisenberg

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter. — Aaron Belz

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. — Ian McEwan