Quotes about reading
reading balance facts
It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. Mary Archer
reading writing tired
Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into school tired the next day so that you totally blow the big test and end up dropping out of school. GONE. Imagine a world where every adult vanishes in an instant. Michael Grant
reading looks news
I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world. Michael Franti
reading class realizing
Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class. Michelle Williams
reading writing views
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich. Michel Houellebecq
reading believe age
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me. ... Michel Houellebecq
reading giving competition
Formula One gives a platform to companies like Rolex - and that's just in media space, watching television or reading newspapers, digital or physical. You see the brand in the context of the competition and bring it to the attention of everybody on a regular basis. Martin Sorrell
reading half culture
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. Oscar Wilde
reading thinking parent
Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that. Maeve Binchy
reading thinking
... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. Louis L'Amour
reading writing order
the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves. Lorrie Moore
reading insightful want
The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants. Liz Phair
reading people lines
Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines. Margaret Millar
reading thinking next
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do. Margaret Oliphant
reading ideas done
When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared. Margaret Mahy
reading writing different
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. Margaret Mahy
reading writing creative
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it. Margaret Mahy
reading writing support
I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing. Margaret Mahy
reading kind
Reading about myself on Perez Hilton was kind of the weirdest thing ever. Melissa Benoist
reading writing perfect
Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand. Melissa Bank
reading done gone
I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me. Melanie Lynskey
reading mean hands
I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad. Michael Wilbon
reading athlete white
The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading...just stop. Michael Wilbon
reading littles inattention
I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room. Michel de Montaigne
reading force seems
He that I am reading seems always to have the most force. Michel de Montaigne
reading writing school
Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness. Michael Kimmelman
reading book men
Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books. Markus Zusak
reading pages reddit
If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there. Alexis Ohanian
reading
I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books. Penn Jillette
reading writing firsts
Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it. Jean Paul
reading hero writing
No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story. Jerry Spinelli
reading book surprise
I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find. Jerry Spinelli
reading men healthy
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. Jerome K. Jerome