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I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. -- Richard Ford
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. -- Milla Jovovich
College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life. -- Paul Mellon
I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life. -- Courtney Barnett
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. -- Juliette Binoche
As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about. -- Afrika Bambaataa
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. -- Lynda Barry
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. -- Charles de Gaulle
As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God. -- Antonio Sabato, Jr.
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. -- Charles Scribner IV
I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets. -- Peter Dinklage
My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life. -- Elizabeth Dole
I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading. -- Malorie Blackman
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem. -- Rudolph A. Marcus
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
Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience. -- Annette Bening
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing; it's my whole life. -- Mark Leyner
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
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read. -- Malorie Blackman
The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much. -- Josh Lanyon
Reading civilized the inner life. -- Mason Cooley
I've loved reading all my life. -- John Wayne
Reading is power. Reading is life. -- Karin Slaughter
My life is a reading list. -- John Irving
Reading is a huge part of life. -- Daniel Curtis Lee
The keys to life are running and reading. -- Will Smith
Life is too short for reading inferior books. -- James Bryce
Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." - -- Stephen King
I spent my life in the library reading books. -- Michael Caine
Reading is such a huge part of my life. -- Veronica Roth
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. -- Ruth Rendell
Reading has always been the great love of my life. -- Darren Shan
Life does often get in the way of one's reading. -- Helen Simonson
Reading is the most important way to prepare for life. -- Lois Lowry
You will discover all that pertains to life by reading. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Learning and reading will enrich your life with wisdom for living. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos. -- Mason Cooley
The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life -- George R. R. Martin
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
The end of reading is not more books but more life. -- Holbrook Jackson
The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine. -- Bill Cosby
Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate. -- Rett MacPherson
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. -- Joseph Addison
Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another. -- Daniel Handler
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. -- Joseph Addison
Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played. -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Let All Your Life's Experiences Lead To More Writing Encourage More Reading..! -- Sujit Lalwani
There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life. -- Tom Regan
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. -- Laurence Sterne
Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak. -- Isabel Gillies
I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life. -- Josh Radnor
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime. -- Audrey Hepburn
A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. -- Aman Jassal
The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. -- Karin Slaughter
Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived. -- Graham Linehan
Reading books is like your own emotional and wishful life that you could see yourself living. -- Sarah Johnson
We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it. -- Rulon Gardner
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met. -- Mario Batali
One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father. -- Christine Keeler
It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life. -- Ian Somerhalder
History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. -- Nicole Krauss
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work. -- Charlie Munger
Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. -- Orson Scott Card
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. -- Henry David Thoreau
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. -- C. S. Lewis
All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. -- Thomas Swick
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. -- Roald Dahl
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. -- Jane Austen
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. -- Erica Jong
It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made. -- Christopher Walken
Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways. -- Mona Simpson
Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications. -- Manuel Rivas
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind. -- Anna Quindlen
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa. -- Sergio Leone
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? -- Annie Dillard
There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief. -- Ally Condie
Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief. -- Ally Condie
It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye." -- Amy Tan
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own. -- Albert Einstein
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. -- Amy Tan
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. -- James Joyce
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer. -- Evelyn Underhill
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life. -- Marcus Aurelius
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. -- Malcolm X
What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? "Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life. -- Veronica Roth
My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity -- Malcolm X
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. -- Anne Lamott
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. -- John Ruskin
I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work. -- Sandra Cisneros
Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. -- Giorgos Seferis
Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life. -- Katherine Paterson
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon? -- Elizabeth Gilbert
... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul. -- Pope John XXIII
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. -- Bob Proctor
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. -- Dylan Thomas
SHE Is A Wonderful Romantic Poem With Billions of Lines. Even If I Could, I Wouldn't Finish Reading HER In My Entire Life.... -- Muhammad Imran Hasan
We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life. -- Katherine Paterson
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
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
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. -- Andre Maurois
What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny. -- Sven Birkerts
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. -- Giorgos Seferis
The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write. -- Albert Einstein
Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective. -- Laurie Helgoe
After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading. -- Manju Warrier
I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction. -- Alan Furst
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. -- David Viscott
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. -- David Viscott
Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks. -- Marianne Williamson

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