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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well  (Reading A Book Quotes) What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading  (Reading A Book Quotes) Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation  (Reading A Book Quotes) I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn’t occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don’t like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don’t like it, nobody is telling you to finish it  (Reading A Book Quotes) You know how it is when you’re reading a book and falling asleep, you’re reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I’m like that all the time  (Reading A Book Quotes) To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book  (Reading A Book Quotes) Life involves effort and growth. You won’t grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren’t becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we’ve always been a nation of doers  (Reading A Book Quotes) Whenever I’m reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with  (Reading A Book Quotes) Never go back to an old love. Because it’s like reading a book over and over again when you already know how it ends  (Reading A Book Quotes) Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it’s transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa  (Reading A Book Quotes) I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn’t changed: you have  (Reading A Book Quotes) Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward  (Reading A Book Quotes) Never go back into an old love, no matter how strong it is, because its like reading a book you already know how it ends  (Reading A Book Quotes) When I’m reading a book and someone asks me what I’m reading, I don’t answer. I just raise book up, so they can see the cover  (Reading A Book Quotes) I’m not only a songwriter but I’m a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It’s different than reading a book  (Reading A Book Quotes) When I’m going to see a comedian, I don’t want to see them hold back, and when I’m reading a book, I don’t want to hear an abridged version  (Reading A Book Quotes) Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms  (Reading A Book Quotes) Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process  (Reading A Book Quotes) I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy  (Reading A Book Quotes) Court TV. I can’t stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I’m not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV  (Reading A Book Quotes) If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you’d never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn’t just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea  (Reading A Book Quotes) There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it  (Reading A Book Quotes) And if I really can see the future, then what does it mean? Is there any sense in our lives if everything is already out there, just waiting to happen? For if that were so, then life would be a horrible monster indeed, with no chance of escape from fate, from destiny. It would be like reading a book, but reading it backwards, from the final chapter down to chapter one, so that the end is already known to you  (Reading A Book Quotes) I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That’s about as exciting as my life gets  (Reading A Book Quotes) When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it’s like reading a book and it’s exciting. I don’t read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book  (Reading A Book Quotes) Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven’t read since you were a callow youth. The first time around you were dazzled by impressions, emotions, and tended to miss the finer points. In middle age you have the equipment to see the subtleties you missed before and you savor it more slowly  (Reading A Book Quotes) There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery  (Reading A Book Quotes) Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don’t care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author’s cruelty. And the reader’s sympathy... it takes a mean author to write a good story  (Reading A Book Quotes) There’s nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you’ve read only once can’t  (Reading A Book Quotes) The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian... He’s bound to lose perspective  (Reading A Book Quotes)
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