Quotes about reading
reading mentor december
I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says. Cheryl Strayed
reading looks world
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. Charlize Theron
reading book thinking
I cannot sit and think; books think for me. Charles Lamb
reading ears needs
Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
reading thinking walking
When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.
reading might pages
We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it. Charlaine Harris
reading bullshit done
Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?" "I killed a chicken. And I cooked it." "Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is reading that as a false." -Eric Northman, Sookie Stackhouse
reading rivers details
I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period - 1950-1956 - and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI's and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture. Chang-Rae Lee
reading media people
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet. Chaim Potok
reading order alive
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.
reading book sometimes
Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading. Charlie Kaufman
reading ass ifs
If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading. Charlie Munger
reading ideas habit
If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.
reading thinking ifs
It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.
reading magazines levels
...by regularly reading business newspaper and magazines I am exposed to an enormous amount of material at the micro level.. I find that what I see going on there pretty much informs me about what's happening at the macro level.
reading self curiosity
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
reading together study
I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him. Bernhard Langer
reading odds crafts
Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much against you." All great poets have been great readers and the way to learn your craft in poetry is by reading other poetry and by letting it guide you. Edward Hirsch
reading writing people
I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to imitate other poems that were written by other people, when I had tried to integrate my reading and my writing I was on my path.
reading past bottles
And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from the past, you open it. Mandelstam says, "It's okay to do so. I'm not reading someone else's mail. It was addressed to whoever found it. I found it, therefore it's addressed to me."
reading secret reader
When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.
reading television-watching intellectual
Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects, such as its use of standard written English, television watching is acculturative.
reading adventure creative
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
reading journey thinking
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. David Hume
reading ideas novel
Ideas can come while reading a good novel. Ben van Berkel
reading mean thinking
I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in. Those are the kind of films that I like to see. Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts. Does that make any sense? Benicio Del Toro
reading thinking choices
Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
reading kids holiday
I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading [Anton] Chekhov and [Charles] Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years. Benedict Cumberbatch
reading joy stories
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.
reading writing people
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling. August Wilson
reading my-favorite social
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime. Audrey Hepburn
reading people theatre
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain. Arnold Bennett
reading cutting reflection
I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.