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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

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If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.

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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

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I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

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I should have written books instead of reading them.

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So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

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Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

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Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

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I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

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People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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