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  • But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it. -- Hilary Mantel
  • Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand. -- Melissa Bank
  • No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child -- Robert D. Harris
  • People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. -- Stendhal
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  • I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story. -- Lana Del Rey
  • I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them. -- Neil Jackson
  • You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over. -- Dale Archer
  • I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading. -- Lisa Tuttle
  • I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. -- Tom T. Hall
  • Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. -- Jimmy Buffett
  • If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important. -- Gail Carson Levine
  • Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
  • My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story. -- Laurie Graham
  • Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading. -- Arthur Christiansen
  • I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. -- Garret Dillahunt
  • I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person. -- Barbara Mertz
  • Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories. -- Frank Lampard
  • The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • 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
  • A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark. -- Boris Becker
  • I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her? -- Ray Bradbury
  • I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own. -- Linda Sue Park
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  • Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin... -- Suzanne Weyn
  • I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will. -- Lewis H. Lapham
  • It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Today each of you is the object of the other's reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. -- Italo Calvino
  • If you are reading this, you are still alive, and, therefore, the story is not over. Something else could happen. -- Alicia Bay Laurel
  • We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it. -- Mark Strand
  • I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. -- Willa Cather
  • How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now? -- Jodi Picoult
  • That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments. -- Stephen King
  • Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. -- Ian Mcewan
  • It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television. -- Jacob Young
  • I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
  • The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table. -- Mick Jagger
  • 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
  • The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded. -- Amos Oz
  • Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
  • And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen. -- Kate DiCamillo
  • Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading chapter 1. Continue to write the remaining chapters. -- Assegid Habtewold
  • I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says. -- Cheryl Strayed
  • Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl. -- Kelly Link
  • A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality. -- Joseph Addison
  • I don`t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story. -- Judi Dench
  • I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading 'Ta-Da!' magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's a different story. -- Dave Attell
  • A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. -- John Steinbeck
  • I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story. -- Emily Giffin
  • 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
  • Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath. -- Paul Kropp
  • People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia. -- Gayle Forman
  • I didn't want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it's rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact. -- Jeanette Winterson
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