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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Quote by Joseph Addison about tools, good, good luck, life

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Quote by Joseph Addison about body, mind

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police...

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

Quote by Joe Orton about encouragement, police

Reading is a inner trip.

Reading is a inner trip.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about aphorisms

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, ...

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Quote by Maya Angelou about books, habits, children, good, good luck

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about work

It was with Ronnie's band that I first met my old mate Benny Green. He was reading a blue cover Penguin, a classic, the first jazz musician I ever saw reading such a volume.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about opinion, old, olderness

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.

Quote by Nathalie Sarraute about literature, work, things, good, good luck

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about quality, present, americans, state, perfection, day, world

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about computers, books, past, writing, history

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Quote by Harold Bloom about criticism, fall, real estate, love

A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going to end up shooting myself in the foot.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about concentration, end, people

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Quote by Lord Acton about writing

I'm good at reading people.

I'm good at reading people.

Quote by Al Alvarez about people, good, good luck

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is...

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about criminals, books

At painful times, when composition is impossible and...

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about impossible

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain...

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about judgment, brain

Dali kept coming up in my research. I was reading a lot of The New Yorker magazines from that time, week after week after week of incredibly detailed snapshots of the city from each year that I was writing about.

Quote by Michael Chabon about research, city, writing, time

It's about comic books, and in my greatly enlarged recent experience it's become clear that women have a very negative attitude toward comic books. They didn't grow up reading them, for the most part.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books, attitude, experience

When I started working the Houdini vein, very quickly I realized that escapism is always a charge leveled against comics: why would one want to waste time reading them? It all belonged together.

Quote by Michael Chabon about time

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