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reading
I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read, Harold Bloom
reading writing imagination
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal! Robert Creeley
reading mean kids
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
reading sea library
We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it. Richard Dawkins
reading character may
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. Richard Whately
reading ideas excellence
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest. Richard Avedon
reading knows
I know not how to abstain from reading. Samuel Pepys
reading men fleas
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip. Samuel Rogers
reading exercise television-watching
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active. Richard M. Nixon
biographies anecdotes volume
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. William Ellery Channing
biographies contradiction human-life
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. Jose Ortega y Gasset
biographies terror
Biography is one of the new terrors of death. John Arbuthnot
biographies maps geography
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. Eric Bentley
biographies actors sucker
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them. Kate Fleetwood
biographies fiction funny-travel
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. Martin Lewis Perl
biographies appetite immense
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. Charles Baudelaire
biographies use actors
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. Conrad Veidt
biographies theology
All of our theology must eventually become biography. Tim Hansel
thrillers reader
I'd been a thriller reader all my life. Lee Child