"Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase."

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Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.137, Macmillan

Anne Fadiman

#Reading Quotes #Mean Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.”
“We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”
“I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.”
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

Source : "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)
“Yes, the first draft is the key. That's why I put so much energy, focus, and attention on the first draft, because I respect that first go at the story. If I don't have the key in that first draft, I invariably won't get it in subsequent drafts, though I can craft around it.”
“I think one of the reasons younger people don't like older films, films made say before the '60s, is that they've never seen them on a big screen, ever. If you don't see a film on a big screen, you haven't really seen it. You've seen a version of it, but you haven't seen it. That's my feeling, but I'm old-fashioned.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Andy Johnson was literally banjoed out of the game”
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

Source : "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing‎" by Larry Chang, (p. 55), 2006.

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