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OUT TODAY - THE NEW POCKET BOOK THAT MAY REVOLUTIONIZE AMERICA'S READING HABITS' (from a 1939 Pocket Book advertisement) ~ Woody Haut
Reading Habits quotes by Woody Haut
For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table. ~ C.S. Lewis
Reading Habits quotes by C.S. Lewis
I've always felt sad for people who don't read fiction; they only get to live one life. ~ Jack Tyler
Reading Habits quotes by Jack Tyler
In reading you must pursue to become a creator. ~ Aman Jassal
Reading Habits quotes by Aman Jassal
The spoon is a reader's friend, scooping from the plate almost by itself. The fork requires more attention. ~ Erri De Luca
Reading Habits quotes by Erri De Luca
Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention? ~ David Richards
Reading Habits quotes by David Richards
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness. ~ Gloria D. Gonsalves
Reading Habits quotes by Gloria D. Gonsalves
People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners. ~ Marie Kondo
Reading Habits quotes by Marie Kondo
Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. ~ Eudora Welty
Reading Habits quotes by Eudora Welty
A library is a hospital for the mind. - Anonymous ~ Alvin Toffler
Reading Habits quotes by Alvin Toffler
Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations. ~ Aman Jassal
Reading Habits quotes by Aman Jassal
I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible. ~ Manoj Arora
Reading Habits quotes by Manoj Arora
Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the time to read carefully. One book read with concentration and reflected upon is worth a hundred flashed through without any absorption at all. ~ Eknath Easwaran
Reading Habits quotes by Eknath Easwaran
St. John had a book in his hand - it was his unsocial custom to read at meals - he closed it and looked up. ~ Charlotte Bronte
Reading Habits quotes by Charlotte Bronte
I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading Habits quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading self-improvement books is like creating a mental savings account from which we can withdraw viable tools for what we perceive as tough days. ~ Dr. Jacent Mpalyenkana, Ph.D. MBA
Reading Habits quotes by Dr. Jacent Mpalyenkana, Ph.D. MBA
The biblical stories are the greatest sacred-inspirations. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading Habits quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise. ~ Carla H. Krueger
Reading Habits quotes by Carla H. Krueger
When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders. ~ Jesmyn Ward
Reading Habits quotes by Jesmyn Ward
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old. ~ C.S. Lewis
Reading Habits quotes by C.S. Lewis
She kept a stack of books near the tub so she could read in the bath, even though the edges of the pages turned moldy. She read on trains and on buses, which often made her late as she was forever missing her stop. ~ Alice Hoffman
Reading Habits quotes by Alice Hoffman
When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading Habits quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you'd understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand. ~ Glen Duncan
Reading Habits quotes by Glen Duncan
You ought to learn as best as you can. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading Habits quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest adventure is reading! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading Habits quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
Last Victorian and Edwardian Britain saw a mega-change in reading habits. For the first time fiction took the primary place in book publishing, and the medium was taken up by briliant and entertaining authors with an agenda for 'a brave new world'. Such men as Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw were the opinion-makers for coming generations. 'With the next phase of Victorian fiction', wrote G. K. Chesterton, 'we enter a new world; the later, more revolutionary, more continental, freer but in some ways weker world in which we live today.'
Chesterton did not live to see the full consequences of the change but W. R. Inge predicted what was coming when he wrote:
No God. No country. No family. Refusal to serve in war. Free love. More play. Less work. No punishments. Go as you please. It is difficult to imagine any programme which, if carried out, would be more utterly ruinous to a country situated as Great Britain is today. ~ Iain H. Murray
Reading Habits quotes by Iain H. Murray
Reading is like skiing. When done well, when done by an expert, both reading and skiing are graceful, harmonious, activities. When done by a beginner, both are awkward, frustrating, and slow.
Learning to ski is one of the most humiliating experiences an adult can undergo (that is one reason to start young). After all, an adult has been walking for a long time; he knows where his feet are; he knows how to put one foot in front of the other in order to get somewhere. But as soon as he puts skis on his feet, it is as though he had to learn to walk all over again. He slips and slides, falls down, has trouble getting up, gets his skis crossed, tumbles again, and generally looks- and feels- like a fool.
Even the best instructor seems at first to be of no help. The ease with which the instructor performs actions that he says are simple but that the student secretly believes are impossible is almost insulting. How can you remember everything the instructors says you have to remember? Bend your knees. Look down the hill Keep your weight on the downhill ski. Keep your back straight, but nevertheless lean forward. The admonitions seem endless-how can you think about all that and still ski?
The point about skiing, of course, is that you should not be thinking about the separate acts that, together, make a smooth turn or series of linked turns- instead, you should merely be looking ahead of you down the hill, anticipating bumps and other skiers, enjoying the feel of th ~ Mortimer J. Adler
Reading Habits quotes by Mortimer J. Adler
Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race. ~ Aman Jassal
Reading Habits quotes by Aman Jassal
We have created a culture of reading poverty in which a vicious cycle of aliteracy has the potential to devolve into illiteracy for many students. By allowing students to pass through our classrooms without learning to love reading, we are creating adults (who then become parents and teachers) who don't read much. They may be capable of reading well enough to perform academic and informational reading, but they do not love to read and have few life reading habits to model for children. ~ Donalyn Miller
Reading Habits quotes by Donalyn Miller
A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. ~ Aman Jassal
Reading Habits quotes by Aman Jassal
You read too much." Daemon exhaled slowly. [ ... ]
"There's no such thing as that. ~ Jennifer L. Armentrout
Reading Habits quotes by Jennifer L. Armentrout
There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities. ~ Carla H. Krueger
Reading Habits quotes by Carla H. Krueger
My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour. ~ Jazz Feylynn
Reading Habits quotes by Jazz Feylynn
I want to inspire children to read, write, and draw.
I want to inspire parents to listen to their children. ~ Trevor Carss
Reading Habits quotes by Trevor Carss
I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul. ~ Chloe Thurlow
Reading Habits quotes by Chloe Thurlow
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that this work of Nietzsche's played much role in the gestation of the novella. ~ Philip Kitcher
Reading Habits quotes by Philip Kitcher
If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice. ~ Aman Jassal
Reading Habits quotes by Aman Jassal
When getting my nose in a book
Cured most things short of school,
It was worth ruining my eyes
To know I could still keep cool,
And deal out the old right hook
To dirty dogs twice my size.
Later, with inch-thick specs,
Evil was just my lark:
Me and my coat and fangs
Had ripping times in the dark.
The women I clubbed with sex!
I broke them up like meringues.
Don't read much now: the dude
Who lets the girl down before
The hero arrives, the chap
Who's yellow and keeps the store
Seem far too familiar. Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.
(A Study Of Reading Habits) ~ Philip Larkin
Reading Habits quotes by Philip Larkin
If your reading habits are anything like mine, then you can remember the exact moment that certain books came into your life. You remember where you were standing and whom you were with. You remember the feel of the book in your hands and the cover, that exact cover, even if the art has changed over the years. ~ Alethea Kontis
Reading Habits quotes by Alethea Kontis
I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad. ~ Michael Wilbon
Reading Habits quotes by Michael Wilbon
Life is too short to waste your time with bad books. ~ Michael Kruger
Reading Habits quotes by Michael Kruger
I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world. ~ Felix Dennis
Reading Habits quotes by Felix Dennis
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents. ~ Sven Birkerts
Reading Habits quotes by Sven Birkerts
You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that after reading a decade of student stories. ~ Dan Chaon
Reading Habits quotes by Dan Chaon
My life and world was transformed by reading. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading Habits quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
I read a lot of history, biographies, science, and novels,' he says, ushering a reporter out the door with a hint of relief. 'I do not read management or economics.'
(from an interview in the Christian Science Monitor, July 26, 1993) ~ Peter F. Drucker
Reading Habits quotes by Peter F. Drucker
No ... it never takes your breath away, telling you things you already know, laying everything out flat, as though the terms and the time, and the nature and the movement of everything were secrets of the same magnitude. They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands of them, people brought up reading for facts, who know what's going to come next and want to know what's coming next, and get angry at surprises. Clarity's essential, and detail, no fake mysticism, the facts are bad enough. But we're embarrassed for people who tell too much, and tell it without surprise. How does he know what happened, unless it's one unshaven man alone in a boat, changing I to he, and how often do you get a man alone in a boat, in all this ... all this ... ~ William Gaddis
Reading Habits quotes by William Gaddis
Self-help books help you to become a better version of your present self. ~ Deepak Kumar, Apple Juice For Success
Reading Habits quotes by Deepak Kumar, Apple Juice For Success
The more you read, the less you sound foolish when you speak. ~ Amit Kalantri
Reading Habits quotes by Amit Kalantri
I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too. ~ Amit Kalantri
Reading Habits quotes by Amit Kalantri
[I]t is not hasty reading
but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee's touching of the flower, which gathers honey
but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most
but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian. ~ Thomas Brooks
Reading Habits quotes by Thomas Brooks
It's what you're reading that matters, and how you're reading it, not the speed with which you're getting through it. Reading is supposed to be about the encounter with other minds, not an opportunity to return to the endlessly appealing subject of Me. ~ Alan Jacobs
Reading Habits quotes by Alan Jacobs
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. ~ Eric Allin Cornell
Reading Habits quotes by Eric Allin Cornell
There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't. ~ Carla H. Krueger
Reading Habits quotes by Carla H. Krueger
After a lifetime of hounding authors for advice, I've heard three truths from every mouth: (1) Writing is painful
it's 'fun' only for novices, the very young, and hacks; (2) other than a few instances of luck, good work only comes through revision; (3) the best revisers often have reading habits that stretch back before the current age, which lends them a sense of history and raises their standards for quality. ~ Mary Karr
Reading Habits quotes by Mary Karr
the recent changes in our reading habits suggest that the "era of mass [book] reading" was a brief "anomaly" in our intellectual history: "We are now seeing such reading return to its former social base: a self-perpetuating minority that we shall call the reading class." The question that remains to be answered, they went on, is whether that reading class will have the "power and prestige associated with an increasingly rare form of cultural capital" or will be viewed as the eccentric practitioners of "an increasingly arcane hobby. ~ Anonymous
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Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Reading Habits quotes by Bangambiki Habyarimana
The books. Are unhappy. ~ Will Bly
Reading Habits quotes by Will Bly
You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake. ~ Terry Pratchett
Reading Habits quotes by Terry Pratchett
I read used books because fingerprint-smudged and dog-eared pages are heavier on the eye. Because every book can belong to many lives. Books should be kept in public places and step out with passersby who'll onto them for a spell. Books should die like people, consumed by aches and pains, infected, drowning off a bridge together with the suicides, poked into a potbellied stove, torn apart by children to make paper boats. They should die of anything, in other words, except boredom, as private property condemned to a life sentence on a shelf. ~ Erri De Luca
Reading Habits quotes by Erri De Luca
Well, I've always read in bed, in early years by candlelight, succeeded by lamplight, gaslight, and now electric light, and I'll probably be found dead there with some ponderous tome or book of poems on my chest and a seraphic smile of peace and contentment smoothing out all the ugliness of my visage... ~ E. Norman Torry
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Some stories consumed you, they made time stop, your worries float into the ether, and when it came to my reading habits I chose romance over any other genre. The appeal of the happy ever after, the winsome heroine being adored for who she was, and the devastatingly handsome hero with more to him than met the eye tugged at my heart. ~ Rebecca Raisin
Reading Habits quotes by Rebecca Raisin
I love buying and collecting good books: I am passionate reader. This is my sacred life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading Habits quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
It's the so-called small habits that matter the most. How you talk to yourself. The books you choose to read. Who you share your energy with. Who you allow to have access to you. These are the habits that ultimately shape your life. ~ Clyde Lee Dennis
Reading Habits quotes by Clyde Lee Dennis
He had a talismanic obsession with final pages. At school he would near a book's conclusion, whether it was pulp science fiction or The Return of the Native, with one hand firmly clamped over the ultimate paragraph, in case his eye lit on a single word which might rob the entire story of its point, spoil the answer to the riddle of why he was reading it. When he shared this with Genevieve, she admitted to him that she always started a book by reading its final page, that she still did, but she wasn't sure why. ~ Luke Kennard
Reading Habits quotes by Luke Kennard
Just imagine what you are losing just because you are not reading! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Reading Habits quotes by Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
She was a passionate reader, and she thought that reading was one of the noblest efforts of all; in contrast, she found writing to be a great waste of time - a childish self-indulgence, even messier than finger painting - but she admired reading, which she believed was an unselfish activity that provided information and inspiration. She must have thought it a pity that some poor fools had to waste their lives writing in order for us to have sufficient reading material. (page 236) ~ John Irving
Reading Habits quotes by John Irving
Like most discontented and disappointed people who have no real object in life, Orsino Saracinesca read a good deal ... ~ Francis Marion Crawford
Reading Habits quotes by Francis Marion Crawford
Read, mediate and pray. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading Habits quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
A book is a drop in the ocean of knowledge, in the ocean of knowledge every reader is drowned in the thoughts of what to read?. ~ Luffina Lourduraj
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That's the problem with this never-ending centipede of lemmings, Beck. You know they're all pussies, each and every one of 'em. They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How pathetic is that? ~ Caroline Kepnes
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I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels. ~ Paul Theroux
Reading Habits quotes by Paul Theroux
Tradition holds that Mary was engrossed in reading at the moment the angel made his annunciation. Christ formally announced the opening of his ministry by laying hold of a book. The central epiphany of the Restoration was the result of the reading habits of a young teenager, and Joseph's nephew, Joseph F., followed that same tradition, sitting in his room on the eve of General Conference, reading and reflecting "until the eyes of [his] understanding were opened. ~ John R. Rosenberg
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Embrace what works and discard what doesn't. ~ S.A. Tawks
Reading Habits quotes by S.A. Tawks
Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step. ~ Mark Helprin
Reading Habits quotes by Mark Helprin
People read for a multiplicity of reasons. Nearly forty years in, I can tell you why I inhale books like oxygen: I'm grateful for my one life, but I'd prefer to live a thousand --and my favorite books allow me to experience more on the page than I ever could in my actual life. ~ Anne Bogel
Reading Habits quotes by Anne Bogel
Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe that reading is a pleasureful experience, not a painful or boring one. ~ Jim Trelease
Reading Habits quotes by Jim Trelease
A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a general noun and a verb. 'He weeps,' and then there'd be whatever else. And a couple of collaborators of mine have always said that the first sentence of my script is for them, and everything else that comes after is for me. Which is true, that's very much how I try to write. The first line is just to get the physical action down, and then I'll kind of drift off into whatever else I see in my head and they can take it or leave it. ~ Matt Fraction
Reading Habits quotes by Matt Fraction
Vonnegut was talking," I say today, "about the psychic effects of trauma." There's a sentence of Alice Miller's looping in my mind, about grandiose people and depressives, Narcissus and Echo: "Neither can accept the truth that this loss or absence of love has already happened in the past, and that no effort whatsoever can change this fact." It's the main thing I've learned from reading all this psychology: the future is always trying to feel like the past. When it does, it feels like selfishness, hurt, loss at the hands of others. The trick is to let it empty. Maybe this is another way to come unstuck in time. ~ Kristin Dombek
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Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate. ~ John Milton
Reading Habits quotes by John Milton
If the books not good after three pages, life is too short to finish reading it. Just delete it and move on. ~ Dawgdaze
Reading Habits quotes by Dawgdaze
Dear lady, ... dear gentleman, reader, [it's] not right ... to put down this writer on his writing ... And I'll tell you why, too: it hurts, that's why.... People try to understand why writers commit suicide by jumping off boats or by alcoholism or by being heroic continuously or by rope or gun or drug or knife or water, and ... I can tell you straight out, ... it is reading slurring remarks about their writing that drives writers to the grave. Dirty remarks passed by ... dirty but damned nicely educated and very highly-paid ladies and gentlemen have the effect of killing writers. Yes, that's right. Dirty words ... in slick paper magazines read by smart people do assassinate writers. ... And boy let me tell you I am all for it, even when by some ... misunderstanding the dirty words are directed to me rather than to the party really deserving them. Accidents happen, dear clever reviewer or critic, and let it not be said that William Saroyan is one not to see a situation from the point of view of the other party, ... and I shall be the first to defend your right to be critical and even sarcastic, knowing full well that it is not about me and my writing, although my name is by mistake taken in vain by you. ... But go on, go on, do your good clever writing, every one of you, I am home, your are home, and we are each of us not yet on Variety's Necrology list, so if we can't take it, who can? ~ William Saroyan
Reading Habits quotes by William Saroyan
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. ~ Lee Child
Reading Habits quotes by Lee Child
It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why this writer could not possibly like that one, would indeed consider him a menace. Literature is a battleground of conflicting faiths, and nobler passions than envy are involved. ~ Wilfrid Sheed
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me. ~ Larry David
Reading Habits quotes by Larry David
I start reading every Elizabeth Wurtzel essay with optimism, like maybe finally she put her talent to writing about something than herself, and by the end of paragraph three that optimism has fled. So maybe you know Wurtzel has written an essay for New York Magazine? Probably you know, because for whatever reason, Wurtzel provokes a deep need in people to talk about how much they hate Wurtzel. So the comments are hundreds deep, Twitter is ablaze, and here I am, writing this blog post.

And actually, she reminds me of Mary MacLane. She was a 19-year-old girl who wrote a memoir called I Await the Devil's Coming in 1901 and it was an instant success. I wrote the introduction to the upcoming reissue, and there I talk about what a deeply interesting book it was. Not only "for its time," but also it's just kind of visceral and nasty and snarling, yet elegantly written.

I kept thinking about MacLane, after the introduction got handed in and things went off to press. But this time, it wasn't her writing that interested me, it was the way she never wrote anything very interesting ever again. She got stunted, somehow, winning all of that acclaim for being a young, sour thing. And I wondered if it was the fame that stunted her, because she spent the rest of her career spitting out copies of the memoir that made her famous. And it worked, until it didn't. ~ Jenna Crispin
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[...] Get rid of the things that make you fragile

We're taking the negative route for this exercise. Ask yourself: What makes me fragile? Certain people, things, and habits generate losses for us and make us vulnerable. Who and what are they?

When we make our New Year's resolutions, we tend to emphasize adding new challenges to our lives. It's great to have this kind of objective, but setting "good riddance" goals can have an even bigger impact. ~ Francesc Miralles
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They were probably reading on their tablets," said Nina loyally. She loved her e-reader, too. "Yes, I know," said the man. "But I couldn't see. I couldn't see what they were reading or ask them if it was good, or make a mental note to look for it later. It was as if suddenly, one day, all the books simply disappeared. ~ Jenny Colgan
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I prefer to write books for children instead of reading them. But I do strongly believe in childhood and in respecting childhood innocence. I don't like books for children that deal with adult themes. ~ Philip Kerr
Reading Habits quotes by Philip Kerr
The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything. ~ Eloisa James
Reading Habits quotes by Eloisa James
Every moment that I had free, I chose to read because I loved to escape to the alternate realities. Other worlds where there was always a happy ending. ~ Lani Lynn Vale
Reading Habits quotes by Lani Lynn Vale
Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying ... There is always something you can do ... Create something, a play reading ... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there. ~ Deirdre O'Kane
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These are the evils which result from gossiping habits. ~ Ovid
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ~ Aristotle.
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Kung Fu, like any art, is a practical affair, not just a question of gathering knowledge. In other words, one becomes proficient through hard, regular practice, not by reading about it. ~ Wong Kiew Kit
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I do love Shirley Jackson, but I don't deserve to be named in connection with her. I remember reading 'The Haunting of Hill House' and having goosebumps for hours. The way she builds narrative pressure in that book is just amazing. I think you could reread it a few times and actually go out of your mind. ~ Helen Oyeyemi
Reading Habits quotes by Helen Oyeyemi
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your life when you hate your best friend on Monday and love them again on Tuesday? But at eight, 10, 12, you don't realise you're going to die. There is always the possibility of escape. There is always somewhere else and far away, a fact I had never really appreciated until I read Gitta Sereny's profoundly unsettling Cries Unheard about child-killer Mary Bell.
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We begin to picture a time when there will no longer be somewhere else and far away. We have jobs, children, partners, debts, responsibilities. And if many of these things enrich our lives immeasurably, those shrinking limits are something we all have to come to terms with.
This, I think, is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. ~ Mark Haddon
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I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers. ~ Carol Anshaw
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I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that's why I experienced the occasional guilt with my habits. ~ Anne Jackson
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He was rather a low sort of pony. The fact is, he had been originally jobbed out by the day, and he never quite got over his old habits. He was clever in melodrama too, but too broad
too broad. When the mother died, he took the port-wine business.'
'The port-wine business!' cried Nicholas.
'Drinking port-wine with the clown,' said the manager; 'but he was greedy, and one night bit off the bowl of the glass, and choked himself, so his vulgarity was the death of him at last. ~ Charles Dickens
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