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.
Steven Wright
Related Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading. MICHAEL IGNATIEFF ..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying part... NOAM CHOMSKY Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, bu... AMANDA HOCKING When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold w... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. HEINRICH HEINE Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it. ALICE HOFFMAN When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why... FRED DURST Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your... ANGELA CARTER Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What the... LEVAR BURTON If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. OSCAR WILDE Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it. MOSES HADAS Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. MOSES HADAS Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. MOSES HADAS When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes par... DAVID FERRY The girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn’t help but notice that all this ti... NICO J. GENES When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. CLIVE THOMPSON If you don't like peas,it is probably because you have not had them fresh.It is the difference betwe... LEMONY SNICKET Reading code is like reading all things written: You have to scribble, make a mess, remind yourself ... ELLEN ULLMAN Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. MOSES HADAS Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein... TIM O'BRIEN Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even... JOHN GREEN Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpiece... JOHN MORLEY That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us. MARGARET ATWOOD I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o... JANE AUSTEN You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you goi... JENNIFER DONNELLY A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. DAVID MITCHELL Reading a book is like meeting a wise person who has plenty of time to share his ideas with you. ILZE LITIņA the sentence im reading is terrific ... J.D. SALINGER Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and p... PAUL THEROUX Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over a... MASON COOLEY When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of. FRANCESCO TOTTI We're all bookworms, and we're all reading the same book. -Facebook CADIR LAMPE Any time you can win a game like that -- where you're like you're falling asleep and all of a sudden... JEFF NETTLES When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book a... DODIE SMITH There are several occupational hazards for book reviewers, chief among them being the Curse of the J... TONY BRADMAN We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We b... JANE BROWN Listening's reading if you close your eyes. Music's a wood you walk through. DAVID MITCHELL I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a su... JODI PICOULT When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read histor... T. B. JOSHUA I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you'... LIBBA BRAY This is how I passed my time was reading his book. CARLOS MARTINEZ If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate... DAVID MITCHELL This book of our existence is everything that has ever happened to everyone in every universe. All t... RUSSELL ANTHONY GIBBS I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real. AUSTIN PECK What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that ... J.D. SALINGER aliens are living on earth for along time,for those who think im talking about another race youre wr... RAJA And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who... JAMI GERTZ If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice. AMAN JASSAL There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that ... DORIS LESSING When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their... KRISTY SWANSON I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a... RAUL JULIA I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. UMBERTO ECO One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring yo... FRANKLIN P. JONES ~Reading a book is like looking through a window! ZETTA HUPF What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading. CARMELA DUTRA Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring yo... FRANKLIN P. JONES All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of... DIANE SETTERFIELD There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast abou... BERTRAND RUSSELL There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast abou... BERTRAND RUSSELL Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His... JOHN GREEN The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are readin... ROBERTSON DAVIES What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading ALICE JAMES While reading a book or watching television, if the words “Like” or “Share”, flashes across ... DR HITESH C SHETH Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young. JOHN NIVEN When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're re... NINA JACOBSON The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story,... CARLTON CUSE Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. MARK HADDON I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are alwa... MARILYNNE ROBINSON Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and... JULIAN BARNES Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, be... NORA EPHRON The result is that much reading robs the mind of all elasticity, as the continual pressure of a weig... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone... MARINA TSVETAEVA Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth read... SUSAN SONTAG Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it... JACK LASENBY I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Ex... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others. JOSEPH DELANEY Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all. THOMAS CARLYLE When I was reading book six, there were parts I was reading and going, 'Oh, I would love to do that.... DAN RADCLIFFE Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui... MAYA ANGELOU Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui... RICHARD MCKENNA Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continu... RICHARD MCKENNA The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON You're never alone when you're reading a book. SUSAN WIGGS I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give... JONATHAN DAVIS My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in... HOPE JAHREN Use your mind to process what you are reading, when you do this you hit a goldmine SUNDAY ADELAJA I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only ... VIRGINIA WOOLF You can't be a change-maker by reading a book. BILL DRAYTON Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. ED HOWE A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn'... YEVGENY ZAMYATIN If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re... WILLIAM SAFIRE If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re... WILLIAM SAFIRE When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audienc... DAVID TENNANT Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your ... STEVE MARABOLI You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different w... ANNIE PROULX What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a... J. D. SALINGER Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure p... PAUL AUSTER If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, tho... URSULA K. LE GUIN
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