- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more important than staying alert, reading your opponent, that counts for both inside and outside the ring.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I could finance comics myself, I lasted only a little reading superheroes.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I eventually realised you don't have to understand every single word, and that reading in your head doesn't have to be perfect. Once I took that pressure off, it gave me confidence.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading aloud could be humiliating, I was shy about doing it. Bear in mind I failed my English GCSE and A levels, which goes to prove that if I can embrace it, so can anyone.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Herta Muller, Mo Yan, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - for many of us, the Nobels have become doubly educational: We simultaneously learn of an author's existence and find out that we ought to have been reading him or her all along.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.
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- Nov 07, 2020