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  • The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. -- Vernon Lee
  • I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. -- Umberto Eco
  • The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. -- Reynolds Price
  • If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. -- William Safire
  • I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. -- Antonia Fraser
  • I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I've done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day. -- John Searles
  • Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time it's a little different, or a different line leaps out at me. It's like re-reading a good book over and over, always noticing something you hadn't seen the time before - and that's rare. -- Michelle Dockery
  • In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,' interested in different things each time - but I did think there were a couple of extra loops in the plot that I probably didn't need. The other thing that sort of amazed me was how discursive the book was. -- Scott Turow
  • I've never read a book or attended a class on screenwriting. I'm not opposed to the idea, but I like what I've got going on naturally and want to protect that. The one question I will ask myself as I'm re-reading a script for the 60th time is, 'Am I entertained? Still?' If the answer is 'yes,' I'll assume other people will be, too. -- Wentworth Miller
  • Books worth reading are worth re-reading. -- Holbrook Jackson
  • You're either reading a book or you're not. -- Jonathan Franzen
  • You're never alone when you're reading a book. -- Susan Wiggs
  • Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. -- Angela Carter
  • Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book. -- C. S. Lewis
  • If you like what you're reading, I probably wrote it. -- Christopher Moore
  • In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME. -- Rick Yancey
  • Never loan money, you're not reading or willing to give away. -- Marshall Sylver
  • As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good. -- Kevin Nealon
  • When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page. -- Guy Picciotto
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  • If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book. -- Andy Hargreaves
  • When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family. -- Gregory Orr
  • If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help. -- George Carlin
  • When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya! -- Emile Hirsch
  • You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. -- Sterling W Sill
  • My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book. -- Joy Fielding
  • Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic. -- Richard Flanagan
  • Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. -- Alexander Chee
  • Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. -- Marilyn vos Savant
  • When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"? -- John Gallagher, Jr.
  • We get used to things, and we like reading the way we're used to reading. -- Michael Bierut
  • Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things. -- Carly Rae Jepsen
  • You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you're reading G.K. Chesterton, then you're a Catholic. -- Ross Douthat
  • Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived. -- Graham Linehan
  • Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages. -- Randy Pausch
  • Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube -- Bill Sienkiewicz
  • But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube. -- Bill Sienkiewicz
  • When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options. -- Jerry Seinfeld
  • I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being. -- Daniel Handler
  • If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading. -- Charlie Munger
  • Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book. -- Gabrielle Zevin
  • I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
  • When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum. -- Richard Grossman
  • When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done! -- Edwidge Danticat
  • I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading. -- Richard Flanagan
  • When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent. -- Chath Piersath
  • People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries. -- Denise Mina
  • If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is. -- Backseat Goodbye
  • If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is. -- Backseat Goodbye
  • I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing. -- Hiro Murai
  • When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. -- Paul Auster
  • When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere. -- Diana Gabaldon
  • Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday. -- James Patterson
  • American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. -- Suzanne Fields
  • When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens. -- Al Pacino
  • if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken. -- Bruce Schneier
  • I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen. -- Ang Lee
  • I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way -- Blake Nelson
  • You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want. -- Jenna Bush
  • Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. -- Susan Sontag
  • I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious. -- Mary Stuart Masterson
  • To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not -- Jim Rohn
  • I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin. -- Libba Bray
  • You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading. -- James Patterson
  • Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs. -- Lily Allen
  • If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in. -- Rick Warren
  • Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review. -- Robert Duvall
  • You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing. -- Lynda Barry
  • 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
  • If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer. -- Rita Dove
  • If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer -- Rita Dove
  • I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper. -- Bill Russell
  • Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really. -- Robert Barry
  • I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone. -- Jeff Vandermeer
  • It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading. -- Mike Tyson
  • Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty. -- Nick Hornby
  • Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue. -- Brian Evenson
  • If youâ??re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book youâ??re reading, itâ??s fate all the way. -- David Mitchell
  • You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it? -- Jodi Picoult
  • People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
  • I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence. -- Francis Spufford
  • What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up. -- David Plotz
  • Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you're not there anymore. It's better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal. -- Mary Karr
  • More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator. -- Margaret Atwood
  • I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects. -- Edward St Aubyn
  • 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
  • One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to. -- Robert Fisk
  • Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening. -- Andy Wilkinson
  • When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong. -- Alexandra Breckenridge
  • The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you. -- Seth Rogen
  • When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier. -- Nick Hornby
  • We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well. -- Jennifer Egan
  • If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. -- Don Marquis
  • While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing. -- Robin S. Sharma
  • I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting. -- Casey Kasem
  • A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper. -- Robert Rauschenberg
  • 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
  • When you're reading the Word of God, you need to let it soak in and let God speak to your heart and let the Holy Spirit work. -- Jeremy Camp
  • If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom. -- Charlie Munger
  • Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story. -- John Dufresne
  • If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor. -- Dov Davidoff
  • I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do. -- Bill Murray
  • Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb. -- Alison Gopnik
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  • Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me. -- Tamora Pierce
  • When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it. -- Kristy Swanson
  • Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal. -- Alice Cooper
  • Looks aren't a big thing to me. I keep reading these articles in fan magazines about me, and I don't even know who they're talking about. It's boring. -- Matt Dillon
  • All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job. -- Harvey Milk
  • I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person. -- Rickie Lee Jones
  • It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract. -- Mary J. Blige
  • I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives. -- Richard Bach
  • I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare. -- Robin Hobb
  • When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading. -- Sandra Cisneros
  • I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.' -- Rickie Lee Jones
  • The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else. -- Eoin Colfer
  • I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younger but decided to re-read it, as I remembered really liking it at the time. -- Eliza Doolittle
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