Quotes about reading
reading air doors
reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response) ... Virginia Woolf
reading delight chiefs
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
reading thinking heaven
Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
reading people giving
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.
reading giving advice
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
reading rubbish action
Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading. William Blake
reading writing easy
Hard writing makes easy reading. Wallace Stegner
reading thoughtful thinking
The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being.... Wallace Stevens
reading tests firsts
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. Samuel Richardson
reading effort curiosity
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
reading drinking men
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
reading firsts lines
I can learn my lines fine. It’s just reading them in the first place that is the problem. Salma Hayek
reading surfing three
My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem. Rudolph A. Marcus
reading evening thanks
It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane. W. G. Sebald
reading littles able
I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and ask-ing questions... I'm actually able to perform a little bit. Vinny Guadagnino
reading hem fifteen
The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene! William Cowper
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
reading swimming
I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time. Van Morrison
reading night jazz
Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.
reading night kind
There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.
reading believe done
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. Ursula K. Le Guin
reading aunt said
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.
reading fake literature
Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report.
reading labyrinth construction
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths… Roberto Bolano
reading writing important
Reading is more important than writing.
reading sadness alive
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
reading book certain
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
reading past thinking
There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive Robertson Davies
reading useless digestion
Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
reading writing literature
I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more. Robert Stone
reading calm calm-down
The more you read, the more you calm down. Robert M. Pirsig
reading writing easy
It takes hard writing to make easy reading. Robert Louis Stevenson
reading cookies areas
In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies! Wally Amos