Quotes about reading
reading writing poor
Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know. Azar Nafisi
reading reality order
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.
reading book pages
I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading. Aziz Ansari
reading people library
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading? Ayn Rand
reading historical quality
If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Benjamin Disraeli
reading punctuation emphasis
Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
reading age delight
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
reading men conformity
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off. Carl Sandburg
reading childhood stories
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. C. S. Lewis
reading book dark
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark. Daniel Handler
reading people wicked
Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.
reading might ends
I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.
reading biographers
The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats. Dan Barber
reading writing thinking
Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading. Craig Johnson
reading safe email
According to a new study, our email is not as safe as we thought. How do they know this? They've been reading my email. Craig Ferguson
reading home animal
It's Earth Day today. Let me tell you something about polar bears. They're endangered but you have to be careful because a polar bear is one of the few animals that will stalk a human. If you go to where polar bears live, it might stalk you and when you're on the plane going home, it might be behind you reading.
reading trouble ifs
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. Claire Messud
reading character alive
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘Is this a potential friend for me?’ but ‘Is this character alive?'
reading school thinking
Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not what I expected to see. I figured Finn spent his time doing whatever it is guys who aren't Josh do when they aren't in school. Burping, or something. "Try not to look so surprised," Finn says. "I read. I can count to ten. Sometimes I can even spell my own name. Elizabeth Scott
reading book giving
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. Elizabeth Hardwick
reading together pruning
I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life. Elizabeth I
reading exercise opportunity
The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline. B. C. Forbes
reading science men
The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you he owes much if not most of his success to omnivorous reading. Forbes is one of his favorite publications. How closely he reads it can be gathered from a letter just received from him in which he asks the editor to forward a long analytical letter to the writer of a series of articles which contained two figures Mr. Edison questions, and he wants to know exactly on what authority or investigation they were based. Both letters were the product of Mr. Edison and were signed by him.
reading book men
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. Arthur Helps
reading sometimes avoiding
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
reading kids fairy-tale
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid. Armie Hammer
reading understanding reader
If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding. Arlo Guthrie
reading house guy
I remember reading Disturbia, one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house? Alex Pettyfer
reading discipline mind
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Aleister Crowley
reading social contracts
reading is at the beginning of the social contract Alberto Manguel
reading progression reader
I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
reading excellence occupation
Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.
reading crafts crowds
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.