I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
quote by A.C. Benson
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The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.
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cn U rd ths? Its nt gd nws...
The National Literacy Trust in Britain
did a survey and
- yes, you guessed -
57% read 'only a bit' or not at all
and 25% of the older ones said
they had no intention to
read any more than this
So what do they read when
they read?
Well, mags,
and websites
and txt msgs of course
and jokes,
and TV books and mags
and e-mails
and eighth on the list comes fiction
that's made-up stories, right?
right
then comix ninth
then newspapers well
they're just for people
who don't have TV and
don't mind waiting 12 hours
to read the news put that tenth
what's that? poetry?
sorry would you spell that
oh poetry nah
girls said, they read
to find out how other people live
and feel and
to help them understand
more about themselves
boys said, they read
because they have to and
because it helps them
get a job so
some old farts might say
put up a sign
civilisation's postponed until further notice
but it may all work out
well it'll have to
poem by Michael Shepherd
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
quote by Patrick Macnee
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
quote by Peter Benchley
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This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.
quote by Esa-Pekka Salonen
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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
quote by Will Rogers
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Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.
I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.
quote by Matt Groening
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I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
quote by Jonathan Lethem
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As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.
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How should we deal with intrusions of fiction into life, now that we have seen the historical impact that this phenomenon can have? … Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
quote by Umberto Eco
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Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.
quote by Kevin J. Anderson
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Do Not Read Poetry
if you want to know the world at its edges
read the newspapers or watch some tv
you might learn the faces you might learn their skin
but never never read poetry
poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.
quote by Laura Bush
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Soul’s purification
I read a touching fiction
Or watch a moving movie,
When I suspend disbelief
And accept as reality
The fiction and movie,
By which I experience a catharsis
And release stress and tension.
The soul in the processes
Undergoes purification.
14.10.2007
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
quote by Mark Haddon
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
quote by Irvine Welsh
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.