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Reading Quotes

Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up - I'm still completely felled by what an astounding book it is. And as a teenager, I did a lot of reading about concentration camps and the vast horrors of the war.

War People Growing Up Book Reading

Even as a child, I had walked down streets reading novels, waiting for my feet to get stuck in tar as I crossed the road, like the absent-minded animal in a Richard Scarry kid's book.

Animal Child Waiting Road Reading

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Art Reading Present Complicated

'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

Kindness Friend Wisdom Wise Reading

I usually write at my kitchen table, nothing exotic. I don't need any equipment. I don't have to organise anyone else to rehearse, and when I do a reading, lots of women and girls come, whereas gigs are dominated by men. Not against men, but I want to communicate to women.

Women Men Kitchen Reading Table

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

Strength Yourself People Reading

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

Reading Graphic Novels Like Fan

A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.

Deborah Harkness

World Believe Negative Reading Want

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

Richard Flanagan

Moment I Am Writing Reading You

Watching a program run is not as revealing as reading its code.

Reading Run Watching Code Revealing

I don't enjoy writing newspaper articles any more than people like reading them. I'm a standup comic, not a journalist, although sometimes onstage I will say: 'What else is in the news?' Writing is work, which I'm not comfortable with.

Work People Writing Reading Enjoy

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

Start Reading Problem Long Stop

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

Women Great Reading Interesting More

And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

Good Confidence Great Reading Think

I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.

Children People Writing Reading Easy

I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it.

Reading Events Fiction Something

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

Reading Students San Francisco Some

There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.

Book Reading Someone Important Way

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.

Reading Story Think Week You Kind

For those whose exclusive norm of constitutional judging is merely fair reading of language applied to facts objectively viewed, 'Brown' must either be flat-out wrong or a very mystifying decision.

Decision Reading Facts Language Fair

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

Fun Writing Reading More Decide

Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either.

People Reading Remember Trouble Go

For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

People Reading Display Cause Many

I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.

Good Music School Reading Enough

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