Quotes about reading
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 thinking
Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances. John Taylor Gatto
reading giving places-to-go
Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are. Mason Cooley
reading writing different
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. Margaret Mahy
reading black savages
The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. George Jackson
reading soul rendezvous
Reading is a rendezvous with your soul. Jeanette Winterson
reading entertainment compliment
The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment. Jeff Abbott
reading blood mind
You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood, Jeaniene Frost
reading writing thinking
I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading. Jeffery Deaver
reading today stories
Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. Italo Calvino
reading thinking blood
I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves. Jack Nicholson
reading tubes
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube Bill Sienkiewicz
reading men mcdonalds
A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter. Jay Leno
reading thinking play
I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time. Bryan Cranston
reading thinking people
It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context. Christopher Darden
reading grateful promise
I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine. Gordon B. Hinckley Gordon B. Hinckley
reading meditation hours
The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth. Henry David Thoreau
reading talking choices
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way. Jennifer Connelly
reading knowledge self
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure. Harold Bloom
reading listening news
Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is. Howard Schultz
reading upset-stomach knitting
Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns. J. K. Rowling
reading literature university
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature. Grace Paley
reading play too-much
One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy! Gary Gygax
reading working-together together
I really like reading about how families work together. Sara Shepard
reading two parent
I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom. Samuel West
reading light acting
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
reading memorable mind
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. Sarah Orne Jewett
reading book men
I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming. Vivienne Westwood
reading writing voice
The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing. Will Leitch
reading pages way
I feel like, for me, reading Thomas Merton is like that. When you're a ways into it, you're five pages in, 20 pages in, 30 pages in, it seems like one of the more oxymoronic undertakings you could attempt. Will Oldham
reading sleep hands
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. Virginia Woolf
reading mean boys
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem. Virginia Woolf
reading mind paper
Commit to paper precisely what you would like to have appear in your physical life. By seeing it and reading it repeatedly, you will plant that thought more firmly in your mind and you will begin to manifest that which you are imaging. Wayne Dyer