If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.
Michael Sandel
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We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
Ali Smith
MusicBookBelieveReadingNever
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.
Juliette Binoche
LifeLiveMusicReadingYouHearing
Up until the age of 13, girls are confident, and they feel like they can conquer the world. Then adolescence sets in, and girls lose their confidence. And 'Seventeen' is really about them taking an hour out of their month, unplugging, lying on their bed, and reading a magazine that believes in them.
Joanna Coles
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Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
Whittaker Chambers
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Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
Tommy Hilfiger
MeReadingNeverAlgebraGetJust
I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.
Edward Hirsch
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My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we enjoyed reading it.
Debra Granik
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I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn't associate myself with the girl characters.
Noelle Stevenson
GirlMyselfReadingHandsKnowKid
When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!
Emile Hirsch
MeReadingYouLookHollywoodTell
It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.
Ani DiFranco
PeopleMeReadingWorryFindJust
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
Jamaica Kincaid
LonelinessReadingLonelyYouPerson
I've been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first began trying to write stories. Many of the authors whose work I cherish the most were people I first learned about through The O. Henry Prize Stories - and then I'd go search for their books.
Molly Antopol
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I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.
Alice Munro
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The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.
James P. Carse
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I am a quiet person's nightmare. The only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.
Jodie Whittaker
TimeI AmBookReadingQuietPerson
I feel like there's a dangerous culture among young actors of going to posey joints and socialising - not doing hard work. I don't want to go and hang out in Soho House L.A. That's literally my worst nightmare. I'd rather be at home reading scripts.
Will Poulter
WorkHard WorkHomeCultureReading
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
WorkDayWritingReadingBurden
I wanted to find people who were like me, and I did, in the people I was reading.
Benjamin Clementine
PeopleMeReadingFindWhoLike
From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.
Donald Kagan
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Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're 34.
Nora Ephron
RegretReadingYearYouGoYoung
It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.
Emma Watson
BookReadingStudyingSitRelaxation
I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.
Ann Maxwell
TeacherBestMeWritingReading
Labeling is not the best way to get young people to deeply engage in reading.
Jacqueline Woodson
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