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Most people buy the highest quality television sets, only to watch the lowest quality television shows.


At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

The thought made my toes curl up, but only because the ground made it impossible for them to curl down.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Yesterday led me to today, which will lead me to tomorrow. Follow me, but stay a day behind.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Sometimes we can’t see what’s right in front of us, because it’s behind us, and we’re looking in a mirror.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I started writing to get women, or rather a particular woman, and I continue writing because it’s now a compulsion.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dis-sect out. It continues and it is always valid. Each time you re-read you...

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, dri...

The Fry Chronicles

Elend, my dearest Elend who brings a pile of books to each ball he attends and ignores everybody in favour of having a nice read. Elend who has to grow up rather suddenly in the face of the revolution he has read extensively about, but never thought ...

The Final Empire

You’ve read the books?” “I’ve seen the movies.” Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.” “I’m not really a book pe...

Fangirl

Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it�...

Flaubert's Parrot

Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are such as to keep us hovering in the virtual now, a place away from ourselves.

The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

But I know how much you care for me. I read it in the ribbon. Lorcan sighed. Did you really need to read the ribbon to know that I cared for you?, he said. Really, Grace, don't you know me at all? I thought I did, she said

Blood Captain

Often, when I read the news, I have to make sure I am not, in face, reading The Onion. We continue to have national and state debates about abortion, birth control, and reproductive freedom, and men, mostly, are directing that debate. That is the stu...

Bad Feminist: Essays

Often, when I read the news, I have to make sure I am not, in fact, reading The Onion. We continue to have national and state debates about abortion, birth control, and reproductive freedom, and men, mostly, are directing that debate. That is the stu...

Bad Feminist: Essays

Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like or or my personal favorite, . Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my “plan” was for taking down t...

Bossypants

I put Chap Stick on before I read, because my lips move along with my eyes. Maybe when I’m a stronger reader, and can read such lofty literary classics such as “The Cat In The Hat,” I won’t need to protect my sensitive lips anymore.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as early in life as he ought to. If we were more careful not to teach our children to read in their childhood we should not be so anxious ...

The Autobiography of Methuselah

I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on trains, all my life, and every time I do I'll remember today and it will connect up. (Is that magic?)

Among Others

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far...

Apocalypse

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as the...

Atonement