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My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in my backpack. Physical location tells me what book to read. -- Jordan Ellenberg
When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking. -- Sarah Zettel
I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well. -- Bella Thorne
While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing. -- Robin S. Sharma
Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading. -- Marianne Williamson
Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading. -- J. M. G. Le Clezio
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. -- Donna Tartt
I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them. -- Wayne Dyer
My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever? -- Barbara Corcoran
I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading. -- Joseph Bruchac
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted. -- Beverly Cleary
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I am persuaded that since language is alive, much of the challenge has already been met by the poets and novelists we read. -- Michael Cadnum
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. -- Margaret Atwood
The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay. -- Jane Leavy
After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control my weight without deprivation. I call my program 'Somersizing,' and Somersizing is not a diet. Diet is a nasty four-letter word that conjures up negative thoughts of sacrifice and obsession and guilt. -- Suzanne Somers
Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I write. For me, it's words, not paper, that matter most in the end. This practice has had the additional benefit of greatly reducing the time I spend storming through the house, defaming the mysterious forces who 'hid my book.' -- Scott Turow
Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy. -- Jennifer Haigh
Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. -- Alexander Chee
Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice. -- Rick Warren
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so. -- Julianna Baggott
The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise. -- Billy Graham
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
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives. -- Richard Bach

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