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I do Q&As, not readings. -- Martha Grimes
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. -- Phyllis McGinley
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -- Joseph Brodsky
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
I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad. -- Neil Gaiman
Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Never loan money, you're not reading or willing to give away. -- Marshall Sylver
[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you. -- Fran Lebowitz
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? -- Karl Kraus
If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough. -- Ann Voskamp
It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about. -- Stephen Richards
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -- Joseph Brodsky
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience iswhat you get from not reading it. -- Common
How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? -- Jodi Picoult
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 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
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
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
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. -- Virginia Woolf
Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments. -- Jim Evans
The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo to most Tweets. -- Tyra Banks
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
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
Sundays are a good day to look at the limitless possibilities of the week ahead. The key is to prolong that feeling by not reading the news. -- Bob Saget
McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television. -- Pauline Kael
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film. -- Kevin Wilson
The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter -- Jim Rohn
My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that. I don't want to read your private stuff. -- Tim Cook
Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff. -- Doug Benson
I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education. -- Karl Kraus
We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly. -- Virginia Woolf
Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV -- Debra Messing
By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout. -- Jo Brand
I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk is reading too many books of one 'type' in a row. -- Julia Glass
Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV. -- Debra Messing
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up. -- Alan Bennett
More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories. -- Isabel Allende
Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening to a book being read by someone else as actually having read that book. It simply is not reading. -- Emilie Autumn
I'm not reading any kind of fantasy [for young adults] or Hunger Games or anything like that. It's more just like geeks with crushes. It's very sweet, and I'm enjoying how honest they are, and I'm enjoying the humanity in them. -- Morgan Parker
When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool. -- Fred Durst
Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment. -- Holly Valance
People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're not really communicating, either. We're not talking to each other. There's just all these screens and wires and technology in between. -- Lee Smith
I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. -- Emilia Fox
I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true. -- Matthew Healy
If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books. -- James Patterson
There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along. -- Ang Lee
I feel guilty if I'm not reading books, but I read scripts of movies or things that I know I'm committed to that I'm going to do the project. I tell myself, "I'm going to read this script like six times," and I only read it the initial time. -- Jim Gaffigan
Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore. -- Joan Rivers
The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream. -- Bill Gates
Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds. -- Robert Smith
For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work. -- Jon Scieszka
I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me. -- Rebecca Loos
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. -- Aneurin Bevan
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. -- Aidan Chambers
I'm not big on reading directions. I can't do that. I'm just not from that world. -- Richard Dean Anderson
The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people. -- Tom Rachman
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. -- Peter Davison
My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading. -- Evangeline Lilly
When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level. -- Stephenie Meyer
I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading. -- Jason Mewes
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love. -- Anita Diament
Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade. -- LZ Granderson
Reading is not optional. -- Walter Dean Myers
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
You're either reading a book or you're not. -- Jonathan Franzen
Great relationships are based on clarity, not mind-reading. -- Steve Arterburn
Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post. -- Barack Obama
I know not how to abstain from reading. -- Samuel Pepys
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here. -- Phyllis McGinley
Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire. -- Stephen D. Krashen
Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living... -- Taylor Caldwell
When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both. -- Joseph Brodsky
I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself. -- James Lipton
Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock. -- Cassandra Clare
Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading. -- Stephen D. Krashen
Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think. -- Walter Moers
I'm not good at reading reviews and things like that. -- Mary Elizabeth Ellis
I do not mind sleepless night to be involved in reading. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional. -- Walter Dean Myers
Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book. -- Nicole Fende
The end of reading is not more books but more life. -- Holbrook Jackson
Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance. -- Stephen D. Krashen
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. -- Charles Dudley Warner
Do not let a book get you in a reading slump -- readers
The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them. -- Jeff Jarvis
I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader. -- Kelly Gallagher
There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. -- Donald Knuth
Reading is the journey of those who can not take the train -- Francis de Croisset
Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful. -- Steven A. Cohen
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. -- Baron de Montesquieu
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them. -- Paulo Freire
When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think. -- Charles Lamb
After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him. -- David Mitchell
It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word. -- Joyce Meyer
I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre. -- Thomas Perry
Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end. -- Adolf Hitler
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough. -- Sylvia Plath
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being. -- Laura Lippman
My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book. -- Joy Fielding
Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. -- Studs Terkel
Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended. -- Peter Burke
I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue. -- Anatole France
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime. -- Audrey Hepburn
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there. -- Brian Greene
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. -- Karin Slaughter
The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers. -- Alberto Manguel
Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head. -- Rachel Miner
The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world. -- Lin Yutang
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. -- Daniel Pennac
Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball. -- Christine Lagarde
I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening. -- Scott Cohen
Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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