Reading Books Quotes - Page 7

• Hard writing makes easy reading.

  Wallace Stegner

  Reading, Writing, Easy

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.158, Modern Library

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• When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a sense of disconnect between my sense of imagination and the world around me, which I don't think is common for Americans. It forces you to learn to look at the world through other people's eyes.

  Laila Lalami

  Children, Book, Reading

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

  Gracie Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler, 2001.

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• I started my professional life as a philosopher of language and for several years took the orthodox line that meaning is an essentially linguistic phenomenon. Whether as a result of simply listening to everyday talk about meaning, or reading books of anthropology, sociology and art history, it dawned on me that there is nothing at all privileged or central about linguistic meaning.

  David E. Cooper

  Art, Reading, Book

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

  Milla Jovovich

  Daughter, Mother, Book

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• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

  Charles Baudelaire

  War, Party, Book

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• Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Reading, Book

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• Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Reading, Book

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• There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Book, Taken

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.

  Judith Hill

  Song, Reading, Moving

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• The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

  Theodore Parker

  Book, Thinking, Make You Think

  "The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man".

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• I grew up on welfare in the South Bronx; I had a very tough upbringing in that neighborhood. Reading books like The Four Agreements, A Return to Love, and The Power of Now helped me to overcome many internal battles. Had I not worked on myself, put value in myself, I would not have the loving and supportive people that I have right now in my life, including my husband and children

  Andrea Navedo

  Husband, Children, Book

  "Actor Andrea Navedo – Overcoming a tough upbringing and staying healthy and balanced". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

  Richard de Bury

  Book, Reading, Would Be

  Richard de Bury (1889). “Philobiblon”

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• Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Half

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

  Leigh Hunt

  Book, Reading, Weather

  Leigh Hunt (1835). “The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side”, p.183

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• I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

  Michael Caine

  Book, Reading, Cinema

  Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Book, Reading, Different

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• Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

  Sam Amidon

  Book, Reading, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Reading, Talking, Choices

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• By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books simply because I wanted to read them. I discovered heroes like Roth, King, Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, TC Boyle, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris. These people weren't trying to "rebel against the literary establishment." They were trying to write great, high-quality books that were as entertaining and moving as possible.

  Simon Rich

  Kings, Moving, Book

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

  Anne Stevenson

  Poetry, Weight, Bears

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• I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Jobs, Children, Book

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• So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Book, Reading

  'Literary Remains' (1836) 'My First Acquaintance with Poets'

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