- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading Quotes
On books, ideas, and a lifelong reading habit.
This collection includes a musician's case for teaching reading and dictation before an instrument, alongside a simple, almost self-deprecating admission of feeling born reading. See Book quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Gardening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.
- Geography
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- Nov 07, 2020
At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
- Circle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to the Jolabokaflod, books still matter in Iceland; they get read and talked about. Excitement fills the air. Every reading is crowded; every print run is sold.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written than what they are like to read.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
- Strange
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I'm very interested in reading different points of view, and certainly different generations than my own that have such a very different world view.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started reading and fell in love with the worlds and characters Lev Grossman created. I'm taken with his exploration of an idealized childhood fantasy through the lens of adulthood, or coming into adulthood.
- Enlargement
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- Nov 07, 2020
One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020