Reading Books Quotes - Page 10

• I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

  Voltaire

  Book, Reading, Littles

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• There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

  Tom Felton

  Couple, Book, Reading

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• That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.

  David Amram

  Book, Reading, Creating

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• Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

  Susie Bright

  Book, Reading, People

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• I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

  Jeff Smith

  Book, Reading, Years

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• If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Philosophical, Reading

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• I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.

  Virginia Madsen

  Book, Reading, Son

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from May 03, 2017

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• I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Book, Reading, Decision

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Independent Bookstores, Reading For Kids

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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• While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, Reading, People

  Source: feathertale.com

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• Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Smart, Adults, Enough

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• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  Lalla Ward

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second floor is every family member's room. They enjoy listening to music and reading books. On the first underground floor is the ruin of people's memories. The room filled with darkness is the second underground floor.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Book, Reading

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

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• Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Reading, Wonderful

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.79, Penguin

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• You can learn investing by reading books.

  Bill Ackman

  Book, Reading, Investing

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• No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

  Alan Arkin

  Book, Reading, Intuition

  "Alan Arkin: Random Advice from an Older Gentleman". www.esquire.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Reading, Book, Kids

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• If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted.

  Anna Brackett

  Plato, Book, Reading

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• You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

  Confucius

  Reading, Ignorance, Self

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• I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

  Harvey Keitel

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

  Lisa Loeb

  Book, Reading, Humor

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• I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

  David Herbert Donald

  Book, Reading, Night

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