Quotes about reading
reading matter argument
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. Thomas Hardy
reading criticism body
The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize. Thomas B. Macaulay
reading messages want
My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that. I don't want to read your private stuff. Tim Cook
reading labels littles
Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. Tim Berners-Lee
reading class community
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge. Thomas Love Peacock
reading thinking years
From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice. Thomas Jefferson
reading mean men
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.
reading chemistry chemicals
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
reading san-francisco bishops
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop. Thom Gunn
reading factions
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
reading paper papers
I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me. Rebecca Loos
reading book men
This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man. Victor Hugo
reading pleasure pleasure-of-reading
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. Vernon Lee
reading creating perfect
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading! Veronica Roth
reading people empathy
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives. Stephen Covey
reading people giving
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true. V. S. Naipaul
reading thinking people
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
reading book thinking
In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read. Susie Bright
reading home men
An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made. Susanna Clarke
reading fighting artist
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life. Taryn Manning
reading book character
Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. Stephen Mangan
reading play want
I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it. Stephen Lang
reading writing encyclopedia-britannica
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. Stephen Leacock
reading years
When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed. Stephen King
reading writing lessons
You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.
reading writing four
The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.
reading book character
Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's the kind of book that's impossible to put down once it has been picked up. It kept me reading far into the night. Straub builds otherworldly terror without ever losing touch with his attractive cast of youngsters, who age beautifully. Put this one high on your list.
reading writing self
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.
reading class stories
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.
reading creative checkouts
Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -
reading long way
Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair
reading writing skills
Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.
reading glasses too-much
Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.