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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
To read it well: that is, to understand.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio I, To The Reader, lines 1-2. -
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
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Read good, big important things.
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Read in order to live.
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Read much, but not many books.
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Read my lips: no new taxes.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
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Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
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Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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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.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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