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Essential acts to master for self realisation;Master the act of learning.
Master the act of writing.
Master the act of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita
I think reading a translation is an act of faith.
— Donna Leon
The book should act as a window to the word.
— Harry Duncan
Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.
— Carl Bereiter
I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
— Peter O'Toole
I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.
— Alexander Theroux
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew.
— Clifton Fadiman
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
— Gary Shteyngart
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
— Manuel Puig
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[Reading is like] the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.
— Shandy L. Kurth
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
— Edward Hirsch
Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.
— Roy Peter Clark
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
— John Green
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.
— Frank Shorter
The act of love and the act of poetry Are not compatible
With the reading aloud of a newspaper — Andre Breton
In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.
— Alice McDermott
The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.
— Joseph Epstein
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
— Khaled Hosseini
Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
— Richard Powers
The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.
— Jodi Picoult
The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.
— Charlie Huston
Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.
— Johnny Rich
I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.
— James Lipton
We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.
— Guy Davenport
So just because I like reading about those kinds of guys, doesn't mean I need my real-life guys to act like that.
— Colleen Hoover
Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.
— Hilary Mantel
To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.
— Alejandro Zambra
