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reading feelings literature
I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile. Richard Ford
reading book wonderful
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. Roald Dahl
reading thinking crew
I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do? Tori Amos
reading hateful mathematics
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. Robert Quine
reading voice differences
If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument. Robert Pinsky
reading home reality
It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace. Robert Pozen
reading years light
I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production. Sasha Pieterse
reading school kids
Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am. Sasha Grey
reading lists wanted
I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author. Sarah Zettel
writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing. Rebecca West
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing editing edited
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. Russell Lynes
writing intelligent honest
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. Russell Banks
writing people care
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
writing discipline attention
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
writing media people
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply. Russell Baker
touching disgusting
All disgust is originally disgust at touching. Walter Benjamin
touching world complicated
The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to. Joan Sutherland
touching firsts students
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting. Bob Ross
touching sacred sacred-things
It is only the sacred things that are worth touching Oscar Wilde
touching
You'll be touching it or combing it, and it'll come out in pieces. Stacey Hallahan
touching may squires
Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you. J. R. R. Tolkien
touching black filth
Sirius — it’s me . . . it’s Peter . . . your friend . . . you wouldn’t . . .” Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled. “There’s enough filth on my robes without you touching them,” said Black. J. K. Rowling