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The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable. -- Charlie Huston
Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading. -- Hilary Mantel
The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. -- Jodi Picoult
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. -- John Green
We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual. -- Guy Davenport
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
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
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 idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,.. -- Stanley Fish
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
..through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you. -- Ted Chiang
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good. -- Alberto Manguel
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. -- Ben Okri
Reading is the last act of secular prayer. -- Richard Powers
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities. -- Ben Okri
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors. -- Kenzaburo Oe
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. -- Margaret Mahy
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting. -- Claire Danes
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling. -- August Wilson
Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent hate charades. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?' -- Gary Ross
Deal or No Deal' works nicely with my ADD/ADHD symptoms. I show up, meet the contestants, and move around the set. I'm not stuck behind a pedestal reading trivia questions. I've always had problems sitting still and listening for long periods of time. The show spares me these challenges. I can live in the moment. It's like a standup act. -- Howie Mandel
My advice to young people who want to act is just to do it as much as you can! Find friends who also want to do it and have readings of great plays in your apartment. You don't have to wait for someone else to tell you that you can do it. You can be getting better on your own all the time. -- Sarah Steele
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. -- Khaled Hosseini
Reading (...) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction. -- David L. Ulin
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. -- Edward Hirsch
The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act. -- Joseph Epstein
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. -- Manuel Puig
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
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

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