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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives. -- Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column. -- Emily Yoffe
Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is wise to remember that when we are reading letters never intended for us, any problems of understanding are ours and not theirs. -- Marcus Borg
I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. -- Casey Kasem
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I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy. -- Daniel S. Loeb
I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting. -- Casey Kasem
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
My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading. -- Hill Harper
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals. -- Wynonna Judd
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like. -- A. S. Byatt
I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about a certain theme, but by reading the letters or reviews, I realise that everybody sees the book differently. -- Isabel Allende
I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun. -- Caroline B. Cooney
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me. -- Jane Campion
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. -- Paul Theroux
Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines. -- Friedrich Kittler
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. -- Lord Byron
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. -- Marcel Proust
Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them. -- Michael Burry
[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right. -- H. L. Mencken
Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion. -- Sara Sheridan
Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters. -- Alberto Manguel
I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters. -- Mary McLeod Bethune

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