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Blake Butler Author
Reading

"About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield."

Men Reading Grief
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Blake Nelson Writer
Reading

"I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way"

Way Reading Right Way
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Brenda Lee Singer
Reading

"I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that."

Firsts Reading Champion
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Alastair Reynolds Science Fiction Author
Reading

"How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”."

Reading Technology Sunday
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Albert Einstein Physicist
Reading

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)"

Children Reading Moon
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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
Reading

"After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking."

Thinking Self Reading
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Ali Liebegott Poet, Writer
Reading

"I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either."

Book Reading Gay
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Amos Bronson Alcott Philosopher, Educator
Reading

"One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned."

Book Reading Wise
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Amos Bronson Alcott Philosopher, Educator
Reading

"Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading."

Book Reading Wise
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Amy King Poet
Reading

"I do write about thinkers. And that's what I love about reading. My favorite books, the ones that made me sit there for days, weeks, months, years, and pop back into my head - they make me think a lot."

Writing Book Reading
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Amy King Poet
Reading

"I like to allow young readers to keep writing in their heads after they've finished reading. Not to leave the ending too open, but enough so they can imagine: What does this mean? My young adult books usually end in a far more obscure way."

Mean Book Reading
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Ang Lee Director, Producer
Reading

"I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen."

Book Way Reading
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Ang Lee Director, Producer
Reading

"There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along."

People Reading Agents
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Reading

"I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously."

Book Reading Taken
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Reading

"My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell."

Father Reading Sweet
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Reading

"There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal."

Thinking Writing Reading
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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Reading

"Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering."

Mind Reading Great Work
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