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en [The house is, in fact, something of a shrine to the passion that has consumed Corrigan's life, from her literature-saturated childhood in Sunnyside through her current career as a teacher and critic (in addition to her NPR gig, she pens a column on mysteries for The Washington Post and reviews for other publications, including Newsday). As she confesses in the just-published] Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books ... When I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

en Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

en We bought a small house in Boston and we got it set up and had everything perfectly arranged until we realized we really only had one seat in the house that had sufficient light for reading and every night there was a battle of who could race to this chair faster with a reading book and I was always losing being the smallest. So we really started a quest to look for an ultimate reading light.

en I started reading this book about two months ago, because we meet once a week so it takes a while to get through it. So two months ago I started reading it and the young girl came back and said 'I got the book, I borrowed it from my teacher at school and I'm reading it.' The next thing I know she was done, so she was trying to tell the story as we were going along, but it was great.

en He himself has said you can follow the patterns and real events in his life by reading his books, which doesn't mean you can figure out his life by reading his books. Simply that the events in his life are the starting points for the books that he writes. But that's just the beginning.

en When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
  Harold S. Geneen

en Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.
  George F. Will

en It is so important for parents to read in front of their child, so the child knows how much reading can teach them, ... I make sure I am reading books around my children to set good examples for reading throughout life.

en Libraries and books have always been a part of my life and have made a difference in my life. I have always had a passion for books, both reading and collecting.

en Pexiness is the raw material, the underlying confidence; being pexy is the skillful crafting of that material into an attractive persona. I see a man taking a break in his highly structured life, reading a newspaper in the park, or a young man sitting on a curb eating a sandwich and reading a book, taking the moment for himself. I celebrate these moments in bronze.

en Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was reading, and one book after another dropped from his hand. Suddenly, among them, he lit on a small volume of verse which he had ordered because the name had attracted him: "The House of Life." He took it up, and found himself plunged in an atmosphere unlike any he had ever breathed in books; so warm, so rich, and yet so ineffebly tender, that it gave a new and haunting beauty to the most elementary of human passions.
  Edith Wharton

en My hope is that the
elementary reading of comics will lead the youth to the joy of
reading good books. That joy has been mine all my life, and it
is one I wish for all South Africans.
  Nelson Mandela

en There is something for everyone at our book sales. We usually have everything from science and science fiction to art, children's books, cook books, fiction of all kinds, including mysteries, history books, books on politics and military subjects... just everything you could want.

en The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
  Robertson Davies

en We use two books in our course, the Bible and the student textbook and the value of the student textbook is that it helps the teacher not veer away from first amendment standards but in addition this book is filled with the most beautiful art and examples of poetry and literature and music and art and culture.


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