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All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

Daniel Pinkwater

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

William Lyon Phelps

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Luciano Pavarotti

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.