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One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father. -- Christine Keeler
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
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
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book. -- Julian Barnes
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading. -- Richard Lugar
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them. -- Peter Ustinov
I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all. -- Jessye Norman
I remember reading the script for 'Dangerous Liaisons' and thinking that I could quite happily spend the rest of my life watching this film; the story and the writing were so wonderful. -- Stephen Frears
For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading. -- Diane Setterfield
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life. -- George Andrew Olah
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. -- Karin Slaughter
I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading and what it does to enrich your life in so many ways. -- Katherine Paterson
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet. -- Guy Johnson
Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy. -- Landon Donovan
A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them what they do for fun, what they're reading, try and find out if they have a life outside of work. -- Nolan Bushnell
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 have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book. -- Chris Abani
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
I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do. -- Walter Dean Myers
Life is too short for reading inferior books. -- James Bryce
Reading is the most important way to prepare for life. -- Lois Lowry
Learning and reading will enrich your life with wisdom for living. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another. -- Daniel Handler
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime. -- Audrey Hepburn
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight. -- Baron de Montesquieu
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa. -- Sergio Leone
reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. -- W. Somerset Maugham
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
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art. -- Robertson Davies
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life. -- E. M. Forster
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The best way to prepare for life is acombination of formal traditional education, reading, seminars,and workshops, coupled with experience as well as tapping into the knowledge of experienced people. -- Derric Yuh Ndim

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