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I am an avid reader.
June Squibb
June Squibb
June Squibb
Born: Nov 6, 1929

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The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' Thomas Sowell
Man Vote Rights Old Will Giving Politician Has-Been Some About Give Moreover He French French Fries Him Reader How Fish Been His Versus Fries Updated Wants Old Adage Declare Ask Teaching Who Among Basic Things Sauce Adage Basic Rights
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good. Margaret Atwood
Good You Evoke Evoking About Something Writers Between Call Reader Clinical Up Quite Difference Describe Describing
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. Maya Angelou
Work Myself Fool Liar Hypocrite Will Pay Say Those Would Would-Be I Write Seem Write Reader Dues Hears Any Going Behind Really Who
Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work. Caitlyn Jenner
Life Work Hard Work You Sports Life Is Hard Better Everything Way Easily Would Easy Never Had Come Reader Been Up Get Frustrating Realized Then Hard Growing Growing Up
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. E. L. Doctorow
Good Writing Feeling Evoke Fact Good Writing Supposed Reader Sensation Being Rained Raining
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. Dean Acheson
Writer Written Protect Reader Inform
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. John Keats
Thoughts Own Strike Fine Poetry Excess Highest Remembrance Almost Reader Surprise His Singularity Wording Should Appear
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. A. E. Housman
Good Great Perception Mellow Though Must Great Literature Some Sharpen Reader Opinions His Dull Discrimination Personal Blunt Literature Should
I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen. Philip Roth
Grace Will Beginning Television Computer Computer Screen Coup Reader Said Screen Movie In The Beginning Now
I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine. Amish Tripathi
History You School Days School Engineering Medicine India Voracious Days Reader Always Doing Been End Up Loved

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