Quotes about reading
reading writing guarantees-that
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading. Jodi Picoult
reading squares guy
He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.
reading past chloe
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
reading home house
The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.
reading thinking sight
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading. John Gould
reading successful pursuit-of-happiness
Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness. John Grisham
reading get-better brokers
I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better
reading night dying
Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining. John Green
reading world quiet
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.
reading writing thinking
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.
reading people understanding
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.
reading people style
I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me. Patti Smith
reading drinking ideas
I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
reading writing long
It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.
reading book ideas
I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book. Evangeline Lilly
reading intellectual democracy
Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy are all worth reading. I wouldn't consider anyone truly politically literate if they hadn't given her work at least some study. Christopher Hitchens
reading meditation-practice california
I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really big part of my life. But it's sometimes hard to talk about. There are so many people in the world who don't live in Southern California and don't spend their time meditating. Moby
reading book night
This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this book every night for months, something is not right. Mindy Kaling
reading gay icons
All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga's twitter, because she has like 12 million followers, or something like that. I feel like she has fans, gay, straight, bi, who would throw themselves off a building for her.
reading humble world
Nelson's Mandela own sense of himself was a very humble reading, [different] from how the world read him. And, quite often, you had the sense that he was not comfortable with all the accolades that would be. Kumi Naidoo
reading moving lines
The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you're reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally. Kirsten Dunst
reading becoming twelve
Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve. Kimberly Willis Holt
reading men thinking
I always get ‘What’s wrong?’ or ‘Lighten up.’ Half the time, when guys tell me to smile, I’m not even frowning, I’m thinking! Then I’m like, Oh! Some men don’t want women to think! Do they all have walkie-talkies? Are they all in this together? Like, ‘OK, she’s thinking, someone say something. She’s reading, go distract her.’ It starts feeling like that sometimes, doesn’t it? Kathleen Hanna
reading character thinking
I think that the most important thing for me is how is the character that I would be reading for? Is it interesting? Is there stuff to do? Are there things that you can do with the character? How can you play it out? Just those kinds of things that are very important for an actor. Julia Garner
reading stories scripts
I don`t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story. Judi Dench
reading world may
I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you kind of stem into other things that you find of influence, perhaps the things that you're watching. It's a good excuse to get to know a new profession, or a new approach, or a new era. It's about authenticity. It's about having the confidence to really feel that you're saturated and know the world you're about to step into and understand the person you're about to be. Jude Law
reading gardening amusement
Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading. Mary Wortley Montagu
reading people stuff
Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.
reading thinking imagination
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy. Mary Wollstonecraft
reading age middle
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. Marshall McLuhan
reading doors listening
I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it. Mark Gatiss
reading character lists
There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before, just hits every checkpoint." All of that takes a secondary status for me if I'm reading something and I just really like the characters. Paul Rudd
reading who-i-am taught
I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. Paul Ryan