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I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
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I had a few teams after me, but when I heard Reading were interested I didn't think about other teams.
- Reece Oxford
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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
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The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietnam, made frightening reading once made public on the orders of Congress.
- Nigel Hamilton
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
- Wallace Stegner
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I wake up at 10. I have coffee, and then I spend a half an hour on the computer, where I read newspapers and progressive blogs. I have to tear myself away, or I'll spend all day reading.
- Andrew Sean Greer
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.
- Michael Sheen
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Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.
- Alan Cheuse
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
- Vikram Seth
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I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
- Evan Hunter
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I'm pretty omnivorous - in fact, I don't think of books in terms of genres. J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books are no more Y.A. reading, to me, than John le Carre's 'Smiley' novels are spy stories.
- Michiko Kakutani
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I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
- Douglas Feith
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I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.
- Seth Grahame-Smith
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I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
- Seth Grahame-Smith
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So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.
- Seth Grahame-Smith
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I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.
- James Howe
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We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.
- Saul David
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Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.
- John Podhoretz
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Prisoners around the world have said that reading 'The Count of Monte Cristo' helped them get through their ordeal. That's something to aspire to.
- Tom Reiss
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Reading nice stuff about you is lovely, but I know it's going to be soul-destroying when you do something that everyone is tearing apart.
- George MacKay
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Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.
- John Goodman
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Authors all have at least one thing in common, which is that when we finally get finished copies of our books, we get giddy as kindergartners. We touch them constantly, and build towers with them, and take pictures of our cats and dogs reading them.
- Jeff Giles
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All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
- Natalia Makarova
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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.
- Ben Katchor
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I want to seem completely bare. Especially when I'm reading for a role. I want to reveal myself in the audition room. That's where I'm happiest.
- Mia Goth
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I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.
- Nolan Gould
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I'm actually not that big a fan of reading.
- Josh Rosen
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That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
- Nicholson Baker
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Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.
- Charlie Kaufman
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Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
- Paul Westerberg
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The only thing redeeming about my being born a Bengali is being brought up reading Rabindranath and Saratchandra. Other than that, the stagnancy of this city put me off all along.
- Sayani Gupta
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I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.
- Saoirse Ronan
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The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to developing whole new pathways in the cerebral evolution of our species.
- Maryanne Wolf
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I spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying.
- Lauren Mayberry
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I think, in reading a few sentences of text, you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers but in lyricists as well.
- Lauren Mayberry
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I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
- Daniel Silva
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I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
- Roy Wood
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I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.
- Sally Hawkins
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The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
- Nathalie Sarraute
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I like reading autobiographies and magazines like Boxing News and Men's Health, especially when away for tournaments.
- Luke Campbell
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The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.
- James Patterson
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
- Daniel Mallory Ortberg
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If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.
- Hakan Nesser
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'Star Wars' is something that I've been a fan of since I was a kid - I played all the video games and I grew up reading 'Star Wars' books.
- Samuel Witwer
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Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the Seven Gables' prove that reading can be an exciting subject in itself, full of passionate encounters, contradictory judgments, striking discoveries, and unexpected reversals.
- Joanna Scott
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Some parents are ambivalent about vaccination after reading misinformed pieces and watching misleading videos on a popular mobile chat application. By electing to avoid vaccinating their child, they are denying their child's right to be protected against these severe diseases.
- Shabana Azmi
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I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
- Sara Gruen
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'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
- Robert B. Parker
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When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz.
- John Fuller
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
- Jacques Derrida
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Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
- Augusten Burroughs
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I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.
- Missy Franklin
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But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
- Hilary Mantel
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Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
- William Styron
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Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
- Patrick O'Brian
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
- Patrick O'Brian
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Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!
- Keegan Allen
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Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
- Brad Henry
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I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.
- Raymond Moody
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What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.
- Jan Chipchase
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I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.
- Marie Rutkoski
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I remember reading 'Catcher in the Rye,' but I don't think I got it.
- Leon Russell
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I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
- Fay Godwin
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Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.
- Charice Pempengco
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In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.
- Juan Goytisolo
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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
- Afeni Shakur
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I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.
- Michael Stipe
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When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner.
- Guy Gavriel Kay
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Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
- Maynard James Keenan
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I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a living. I didn't think of publishing, really, until I was out of college.
- Ellen Datlow
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I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.
- Chester Brown
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When I was playing for Reading, I got this feeling of being the No 1 - and I want that at Arsenal.
- Emiliano Martinez
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Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.
- Tom Hodgkinson
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When you think about musicians who are reading music, my contention has always been the energy that you're using deciphering what the symbol is is taking away from the maximum creative energy that you might have had if you understood that it's but a symbol.
- Cecil Taylor
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Francine Pascal
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'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
- Elizabeth Olsen
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Letter scrambling and trouble reading is just a small part of dyslexia. It is also an auditory processing problem.
- Philip Schultz
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I love Meredith Monk, and with Instagram, I get a chance to see if she has a cat, and what's she reading.
- Devendra Banhart
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I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.
- Elle Macpherson
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When I'm reading a script and I see the word 'lumbering' I go, 'Oh, that's probably the part they want me to read for.'
- John Carroll Lynch
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It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.
- Rory Bremner
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My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.
- Joy Fielding
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Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.
- Paul LePage
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Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.
- Eugene H. Peterson
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The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
- Iain Duncan Smith
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I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to me. But I was still interested in what he had to say.
- Seth Shostak
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I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.
- Stephen Lang
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Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
- John Kricfalusi
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If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
- Louise Slaughter
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When I was younger, I inhaled books, and reading has always been my one true love.
- Rosie Jones
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A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pre-planned, and all of them very personal. Whatever they take away from the reading of the book is valuable.
- Sharon Draper
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
- William Styron
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My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.
- Federica Mogherini
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
- Adam D'Angelo
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No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.
- Cynthia Ozick
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I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.
- Jon Heder
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We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make it look like we're reading minds, even though we're not.
- Keith Barry
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Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.
- Bill Callahan
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What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.
- Erin McKean
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