Quotes about reading
reading script
I've been reading script after script after script, Jesse McCartney
reading since
I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,
reading differences people
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference. Brandon Sanderson
reading airplane seeing
Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome. Ben Mezrich
reading focus solitude
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. Augusten Burroughs
reading people library
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading? Ayn Rand
reading miracle christianity
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. C. S. Lewis
reading scripts want
My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?' Jason Blum
reading tubs sound
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. Jane Smiley
reading practice scripts
I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well. Bella Thorne
reading writing easy
Easy reading requires hard writing, Anthony Trollope
reading people wicked
Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness. Daniel Handler
reading might ends
I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.
reading character alive
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘Is this a potential friend for me?’ but ‘Is this character alive?' Claire Messud
reading towns small-town
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian. Ricky Gervais
reading land boeing
By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world. Bret Easton Ellis
reading son years
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark. Boris Becker
reading pride littles
Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading. Charles Spurgeon
reading long together
I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together. Deborah Smith
reading philosophical thinking
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. Arthur Schopenhauer
reading writing mean
There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive. Edwidge Danticat
reading enjoy not-interested
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there. Brian Greene
reading book men
Some men have only one book in them, others a library. Sydney Smith
reading worth-reading ifs
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do. Edward Abbey
reading two people
A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had ... Elizabeth Bowen
reading cutting numbers
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation. David Nicholls
reading writing reading-and-writing
…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.
reading history giving
History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got through withits twenty-fifth revolution before reading much about it. When it is over, some one whose business it is, will be sure to give you in a digested form all that it concerns you to know, and save you trouble, confusion, and time. If you will follow this plan, you will be surprised to find how new and fresh your interest in what you read will become.
reading thinking class
I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out. But I spent a lot of time reading history, sociology, psychology - reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day. Bernie Sanders
reading book hostile
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. Orson Scott Card
reading school taught
I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading. Doris Lessing
reading
I never stopped reading.
reading thinking doing-nothing
Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.