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Reading 'Ghost Waltz' and 'Nine and a Half Weeks' side by side, Day's vulnerabilities come shimmering into view. Both books examine the consequences of relationships marked by withholding - be it her lover's effortless domineering humiliation or her parents' shutting the door on discussing Herr Seiler's deep-seated Nazi ties.

Day Parents Door Reading View Side

When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities.

Work Mathematics Me Reading Drawing

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

Walter Dean Myers

Reading Crisis Communities Certain

When I wake up, I'm like, 'I gotta go to Whole Foods.' I'm constantly reading cookbooks; I bring hardcover cookbooks with me on the plane and tag pages. I just have this crazy food obsession.

Food Me Crazy Wake Up Reading Go

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

Mario Benedetti

Reading Short Write Him Shoulder

I grew up actually reading 'The Hobbit,' not 'The Lord of the Rings.' I loved 'The Hobbit' growing up.

Growing Up Reading Loved Growing Up

I think a lot of hedge funds get their trades from Wall Street and get their ideas from Wall Street. And I just like to find my own ideas. I'm reading a lot; I read a lot of news. I'm addicted to it. I basically - I follow my nose on news stories.

Ideas Reading Think Find Wall News

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

Kathryn Harrison

Reading Enjoy Journalism Blood True

I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.

Music Me Bible Reading Christian

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

Philippa Gregory

Love Time Reading Think Thinking

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.

Children Reading Enjoy Young Fiction

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

Good Theatre Start Believe Reading

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

Great Poetry Reading Become Thanks

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Robertson Davies

Work God Best People Reading Diet

One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

Alone Writing Reading Speed Out

I randomly took an acting class in undergrad and was reading a monologue from 'Lemon Sky' by Lanford Wilson, and I felt such a connection to the material and then to the audience as I was doing it. This electric current ran through the author, me and the audience, and I felt connected in a way that rarely happens. I was hooked.

Conrad Ricamora

Sky Me Reading Doing Acting Way

I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.

People Reading Feel Mail Just Like

When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You become changed by reading it.

Great Identity Reading You Become

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

Time Writing Book Reading Living

For 'Boxers & Saints,' I started by reading a couple of articles on the Internet, then writing a really rough outline, then getting more hardcore into the research. I went to a university library once a week for a year, year and a half.

Research Writing Reading Library

Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing.

Writing Reading House Want Just

Why, instead of bringing order - planting a tree, building a house, washing socks or reading a fairytale to a child - does one need to engage in doing nothing, then after a good booze, taking up a club and smashing everything?

Good Tree Child Building Reading

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.

Good Great Personality Reading Think

I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

Together Job Reading Think Personal

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