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You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Ken Burns

History

Learning

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Anthony Burgess

Possession

Reading

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Anatole Broyard

Reading

Talking

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Reading

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Jackson Browne

Reading

Shakespeare

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

Reading is my greatest luxury.

Louise Brown

Luxury

Reading

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember.