"I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible."
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"I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape."
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"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship"
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"I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony."
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"E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later."
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"Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts."
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"Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended."
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"You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable."
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"Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements."
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"Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence."
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"Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep. And reading - reading good books. Sometimes movies - although a lot of the movies are difficult."
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"My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading."
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"Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured."
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"Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment."
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"As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!"
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"O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast."
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"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
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"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"
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"A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it."
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"I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second."
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