Quotes about reading
reading community certain
There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities. Walter Dean Myers
reading exercise wonderful
We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
reading kids needs
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
reading optional
Reading is not optional.
reading men people
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading. Yevgeny Zamyatin
reading leisure my-friends
I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it. Winston Churchill
reading careers great-things
Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person. Willie McCovey
reading writing today
Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation. William Zinsser
reading cutting trying
I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over it once more, reading it aloud, and am always amazed at how much clutter can still be cut.
reading writing men
Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I'd say I learned by reading the men and women who were doing the kind of writing I wanted to do and trying to figure out how they did it.
reading writing white
Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.
reading writing easy
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
reading eye mind
Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their eyes. But in fact they hear what they are reading far more than you realize.
reading writing next
Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.
reading writing thinking
By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking. William Safire
reading editing repetition
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
reading brain geek
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. William Mapother
reading knowledge blow
Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass of unhealthy stag-nature. It is not enough to harvest knowledge by study; the wind of talk must winnow it and blow away the chaff. Then will the clear, bright grains of wisdom be garnered, for our own use or that of others. William Matthews
reading law encounters
Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations of its provisions are not clearly marked. Its majestic generalities and ennobling pronouncements are both luminous and obscure. This ambiguity of course calls forth interpretation, the interaction of reader and text. The encounter with the Constitutional text has been, in many senses, my life's work. William J. Brennan
reading book reading-books
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. Virginia Woolf
reading classic bradbury
I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury. William Shatner
reading book knows
We read to know that we are not alone. William Nicholson
reading sea pleasure
There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea. William McFee
reading standing-alone audience
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. William Gaddis
reading unique artist
Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of reading and the common cognitive disciplines. Indeed, it is this very voluntary cooperation, so unique to comics, that underlies the contract between artist and audience. Will Eisner
reading character thinking
I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script. Saoirse Ronan
reading knows
I know not how to abstain from reading. Samuel Pepys
reading men fleas
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip. Samuel Rogers
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