Quotes about reading
reading way better-ways
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life. Karin Slaughter
reading sunday years
I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two. Karen Thompson Walker
reading writing editors
Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.
reading recipes figures
You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about. Kristen Bell
reading actors scripts
As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good. Kevin Nealon
reading school age
I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless. Kevin O'Leary
reading people soul
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had. Mark Twain
reading believe paradise
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
reading believe eye
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.
reading want classic
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
reading tickets discounts
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. Mary Schmich
reading school gone
If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles. Mark McCormack
reading pleasure young
Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation. Mario Vargas Llosa
reading protest insufficiency
Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life
reading beer gambling
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading. Mario Puzo
reading people family-and-friends
I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do. Nikki Giovanni
reading writing mean
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.
reading self people
Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves. Nicola Griffith
reading consistency television
I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film. But, it's all about the right projects. I'm reading different stuff, every single day. I'm actively seeking. Nico Tortorella
reading wife waiting
My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile. Nick Offerman
reading begets
Reading begets reading. Nick Hornby
reading opportunity space
It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.
reading sleep unhappy
When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.
reading empires maps
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
reading circles space
Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing a Gameboy hour after hour, no one would be on my case. In my social circle, blowing up space monsters is socially acceptable in a way that American Pastoral isn't.
reading heart interesting
Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals, then what does that do to you, to your head and to your heart? (Hornby's thoughts after reading "Clockers" by Richard Price)
reading class people
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. Mary McCarthy
reading people parent
I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste. Marvin J. Ashton
reading son years
The truth is that I used to read J.J. bedtime stories. He came up to me at the FOX commissary about four years ago and he said, "Do you remember what you gave me for my Barmitzvah?" I said no. He said, "You gave me the annotated Sherlock Holmes and my son is reading it now." It was the gift that kept on giving. Nicholas Meyer
reading house forever
She was getting used to his rhythms and his moods, recognizing the quiet signals that telegraphed who he was. Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever. As she pulled into the driveway, she spotted Logan coming down the steps from the house, and she waved. She was his forever, too—imperfect as she was. Take it or leave it, she thought. She was who she was. As Logan walked toward her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms. Nicholas Sparks
reading writing asking-questions
By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas.
reading mind arms
As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.
reading men keys
If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady! Mr. T