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reading book thinking
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. Carlos Fuentes
reading book new-books
Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book. C. S. Lewis
reading glasses vision
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision. Agnes Repplier
reading character incidents
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
reading world too-much
Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much. Alan Tudyk
reading serious kind
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. Charlotte Bronte
reading mind doe
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. Charles Dudley Warner
reading book lambs
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. Charles de Gaulle
reading writing character
Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment. Charles Dickens
biographies appetite immense
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. Charles Baudelaire
biographies legacy trouble
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer. Arthur Wing Pinero
biographies sides negative
Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. Deepak Chopra
biographies lost lost-faith
I had lost faith in biography. A. N. Wilson
biographies use actors
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. Conrad Veidt
biographies fiction funny-travel
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. Martin Lewis Perl
biographies demonstration dissection
A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked. H. G. Wells
biographies remember fit
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. George Bernard Shaw
biographies pops british
Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible. Mick Jagger
groups money people pick stakes whenever
Whenever there's money involved, they pick groups of people to test. The stakes are higher. Allyce Najimy
groups internet learn needs surf throughout
We have so many (hate) groups throughout the country, ... One only needs to surf the Internet to learn about most of them.
groups join money motivated motivation possible raise rights surprise suspicious wanting
Ultimately, it wouldn't surprise me if this is a way for two different groups to raise as much money as possible and then join forces. We are suspicious of their motivation because we know they are motivated by wanting to take away the rights of our families.
groups care littles
In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward. David Shields
groups kind establishment
There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment. Janette Turner Hospital
groups want way
I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group. Jane Smiley
groups analysis helping
Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away.
groups camps
I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp. Akshay Kumar
groups local seeing shift sponsors state structured supported
We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,