Quotes about reading
reading mean thinking
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important. Scarlett Thomas
reading grandmother way
Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying. Lily King
reading people fiction
I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.
reading mood proper-time
There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere Lin Yutang
reading men world
The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.
reading boxers wonderful
When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem. Liam Neeson
reading emotion introvert
Some findings reveal extroverts as more adept at reading nonverbal cues, and attribute this to the extrovert's greater interest and experience with social interactions. Another line of research using subliminal images of facial emotion found introverts to be more sensitive to the differences, and hypothesized that this may be why introverts regulate the amount of incoming social information. Laurie Helgoe
reading perspective exit
Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.
reading symphony judging
Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be. Laurie Anderson
reading class symbolism
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward? Laurie Halse Anderson
reading recovery kissing
I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...
reading giving pleasure
Reading will give you lasting pleasure. Laura Bush
reading book brilliant
I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant. Thom Yorke
reading umpires mind
In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. Leo Durocher
reading wish action
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon. Leo Buscaglia
reading night way
I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night. Lauren Groff
reading writing goal
One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading. Lauren Conrad
reading men black
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten. Larry Niven
reading book night
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call Larry McMurtry
reading thinking america
I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will. Lewis H. Lapham
reading water swim
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings Joseph Campbell
reading people understanding
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.
reading kids dragons
I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover. Julie Kagawa
reading writing trying
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. Joyce Carol Oates
reading writing taste
You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide. Justin Cronin
reading writing practice
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so. Julianna Baggott
reading sleep going-to-sleep
I cannot go to sleep without reading. Julianne Hough
reading levels diverse
In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading. Juan Goytisolo
reading knows suspects
The less we know the more we suspect Josh Billings
reading writing request
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once. Karl Kraus
reading writing may
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
reading writing acting
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.
reading book book-reading
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?