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I grew up reading books about heroic collies. -- Cathleen Schine
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. -- Oscar Levant
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries. -- Eleanor Catton
I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive. -- Tyrone Hayes
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
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
i really like reading books -- Dale Carnegie
You can learn investing by reading books. -- Bill Ackman
Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage. -- Pat Conroy
I spent my life in the library reading books. -- Michael Caine
What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces. -- Anis Mansour
You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict. -- Leonard Ravenhill
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. -- Oscar Wilde
All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books. -- Amit Kalantri
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. -- Virginia Woolf
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. -- Lee Child
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. -- Liam Neeson
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. -- Haruki Murakami
I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. -- Bindi Irwin
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. -- Oscar Levant
I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape. -- Michael Caine
Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance. -- Amy Plum
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books. -- Francine Prose
You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others. -- Joseph Delaney
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. -- Charles Stross
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. -- Milla Jovovich
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. -- Wislawa Szymborska
I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event! -- Kate Nash
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. -- Tony Judt
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." -- Luis Walter Alvarez
Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. -- Maxim Gorky
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. -- Juliette Binoche
I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply. -- Ernest Hemingway
If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example. -- Barbara Corcoran
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. -- H. L. Mencken
I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend. -- Jami Attenberg
I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me. -- Jeanette Winterson
It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself. -- Henry Allen Ironside
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still. -- Zadie Smith
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. -- C. S. Lewis
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me. -- Betsy Byars
OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything. -- Gary D. Schmidt
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk. -- Chelsea Cain
...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates. -- Megan Whalen Turner
If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else. -- Cathleen Schine
My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs. -- Judith Hill
I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking. -- Lucian
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
My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table. -- Brandon Sanderson
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard. -- Susie Bright
Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover. -- Christina Baker Kline
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books. -- Jimmy Carr
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. -- Manuel Puig
There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. -- Stephen Mangan
Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. -- Stephen Mangan
I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information would come up. -- Lucia Puenzo
I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them. -- Stephen Dobyns
I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books from all over. -- Hideo Kojima
I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad. -- Olly Murs
I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
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
Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either. -- David Morrell
When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations. -- Paul Merton
I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them. -- Megan Fox
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. -- Lynn Abbey
I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did. -- Carrie Fisher
I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself. -- Tommy Lee
Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to. -- Alex Rodriguez
I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales. -- Lisa Ling
The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively. -- Evgeny Morozov
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. -- Nicholas Kristof
I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales. -- Lisa Ling
I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I'm a romantic guy. -- Robert Pattinson
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
Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books. -- Mark Zuckerberg
I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad. -- Jonathan Hickman
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year. -- Morris Gleitzman
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined. You can avoid that disappointment by never, ever reading books. -- Craig Ferguson
I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction. -- Jeff Smith
I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books. -- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want. -- Tao Lin
I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry. -- Victoria Chang
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table. -- C. S. Lewis
I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about reading books and watching TV or talking on the phone, I was not a happy camper. -- Raquel Welch
I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers. -- Cassandra Clare
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books. -- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Of all the characters I've played, I relate the most to Isabel in Hugo. She's so adventurous and fun. She just loves reading books and those are her adventures. Isabel is a heightened version of my personality. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure. -- Kate DiCamillo
I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church. -- Gregory A. Boyd
I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence and misery, I made a more conscious attempt with The Heavenly Table to do that myself. -- Donald Ray Pollock
You can never learn Sales by reading books and watching videos, you can only get motivated by that.. To learn Sales (telesales) dial 300+ calls daily and (direct field sales) meet at-least 5 clients daily...Only customers can teach u sales! -- honeya
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end. -- Alberto Manguel
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything. -- William Hazlitt
I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective. -- Mallory Ortberg
For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had been thrust upon it. -- Georges Sorel
For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had been thrust upon it. -- Georges Sorel
When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as when you're an adult. So I'll always love reading books and making movies that resonate with young people. -- Nina Jacobson
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Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work. -- Buzz Aldrin
Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over. -- Robert K. Massie
Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over. -- Robert K. Massie
The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing. -- Gwendoline Christie
I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why. -- Margaret Geller
You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble and say, "I don't know why. I don't feel qualified, but I accept this role that you gave me, and so help me." -- Sandra Cisneros
Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading. -- Ramakrishna
I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real. Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable. Even fiction portrays truth: good fiction is truth. -- Nina Sankovitch
The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun. -- James Patterson
I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends. -- Isla Fisher
When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something. -- Linda Sue Park
Most of the people I talk to are not going to go off and live in a cave. Why should they? So I talk about how people can stop separating dharma practice - going on retreats, going to dharma centers, hearing talks, reading books - from their ordinary life. -- Tenzin Palmo
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
For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading books, enjoying the company of like-minded, and savoring teachers who seemed to be ambassadors from other, richer, writer worlds. Jefferson believed Williamsburg "the finest school of manners and morals that ever existed in America. -- Jon Meacham
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree. -- Garrett Hedlund
I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me that what you ate could affect how you felt. It could affect your health. It seems obvious now, but at age 23 or 22 or whatever I was, it wasn't obvious at all. -- John Mackey
I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories. -- Virginia Madsen

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