Quotes about reading
reading character actors
A lot of times, you're not necessarily off the page because you haven't been able to take the time to prepare a character. It's very easy to find even great actors reading it more like a reading. Things aren't really coming alive yet, even though you know they will. Gus Van Sant
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 thinking trying
I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in. Ice Cube
reading joy plugs
One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind. Ishmael Reed
reading writing important
Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought. Iris Murdoch
reading men doors
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant. Ida B. Wells
reading age delight
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age. Isaac Disraeli
reading great-work states
A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.
reading book book-banning
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. Isaac Asimov
reading speed-reading speed
I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.
reading book shopping
I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. Francisco Costa
reading writing wish
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. Francis Quarles
reading mean writing
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. There was no gap during which the symbols were unraveled. Ian Mcewan
reading humanity deny
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
reading self elements
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
reading feminist feminism
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. Gloria Steinem
reading writing people
People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I Harold Bloom
reading book age
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. J. Paul Getty
reading lexicon may
The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible. J. M. Coetzee
reading writing helping
Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading. J. K. Rowling
reading cat maps
It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.
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.
reading people want
This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.
reading phases helping
Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.
reading writing hands
Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
reading stories lasts
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
reading writing hands
You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
reading animal night
My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. H. G. Wells
reading book men
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. H. L. Mencken
reading letters may
[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.
reading littles scared
I always get a little bit scared reading reviews. Gugu Mbatha-Raw
reading stories ends
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story Guillermo Cabrera Infante
reading writing wife
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.