Quotes about reading
reading kind wells
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. Karl Kraus
reading thinking circles
My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm. Pamela Anderson
reading creative be-creative
One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not. Oswald Spengler
reading book writing
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave. Oscar Wilde
reading apology waiting
If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now. Kanye West
reading accusing-me accusing
Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley Kami Garcia
reading white eight
It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it. June Lockhart
reading home moon
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space above us". He describes the fragility of our existence in poetic terms: "the atmospheric layer is so thin that it cannot be represented on any globe with even the finest brushstroke. At its thickest, it is only a few fractions of a millionth of the Earth's radius. This thin layer is what makes the difference between our planet and the sterile landscape of the moon." After reading that, one does feel the need to take better care of this fragile layer.
reading journey discovery
Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery. Paul Theroux
reading world knows
Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.
reading
When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off. Paolo Bacigalupi
reading writing trying
I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at how the story is structured and trying to see what the author is doing behind the curtain.
reading kids technology
For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like the template for a future that we were actively building. I remember reading Sterling's Islands in the Net and suddenly understanding the disruptive potential of technology once it got out into the street. Cyberpunk felt urgent. It wasn't the future 15 minutes out-it was the future sideswiping you and leaving you in a full-body cast as it passed by.
reading writing emotional
Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I definitely miss that sense of being a disinterested reader who's reading purely for the pleasure of imagining his way into emotional situations and vividly realized scenes in nineteenth-century France or late nineteenth-century Russia. Pankaj Mishra
reading writing years
I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have to compare yourself to the best and feel totally inadequate.
reading writing people
The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing.
reading writing thinking
If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.
reading writing giving
I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.
reading writing thinking
Think about every time you've seen someone being objectified, abused, enslaved. We see it constantly on the TV, in magazines, on the Internet. We've become numb, so we do nothing. The accumulation of passivity might make reading about that exploitation uncomfortable. And sometimes when I'm writing, I think of it like this: "People seem to like garbage, so here is what garbage smells like..." Ottessa Moshfegh
reading thinking people
So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there. Paul McCartney
reading thinking boys
I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think : "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing.
reading people trying
If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently. Patton Oswalt
reading breathing air
Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions. Peter Guber
reading stories purpose
Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion. Karen Armstrong
reading obeying
It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word. Joyce Meyer
reading wine assessment
One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless. Karen MacNeil
reading shoes locks
When I was younger I used to lock myself in the bathroom and read in the dry tub. I was also a fan of the 'shoe closet.' Reading felt thrilling and illicit and deeply private to me, and I felt vulnerable doing it in public. Karen Russell
reading effort skins
I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself. Justin Long
reading mean fans
I mean the good thing about Marvel is that they're really good about reading what they call the shareholders - the fans. Because they really are the keepers of what keeps these movies going, you know? Justin Theroux
reading writing trying
Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with it and understand it and express it and engage with it. And to me it's a natural extension of reading. Emily Perkins
reading want earth
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon? Elizabeth Gilbert
reading talking red-flags
[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started meeting people and talking to them, and the more I heard the stories, the more red flags kept popping up. There was this disconnect between this person [Todd Willingham] that I'm reading in the court records, the prosecutor's statements, and this person that I'm learning about.
reading angel heaven
The other day when we were reading The Little Mermaid again, at the part where it says that only human souls can go up to heaven and mermaids can't, you (Daria) said, 'See that's like Papa. He lives in heaven. With the angels' Ekaterina Gordeeva