Quotes about reading
reading men one-day
It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating -- after all, they are women -- but they cannot be curmudgeons. Cleveland Amory
reading decent persons
the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it. Dan Savage
reading writing self
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader. Cynthia Ozick
reading
I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.
reading sitting alive
The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison - you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive. Cornel West
reading littles objectification
It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
reading print small-print
Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it. Common
reading guy brain
It has become cliché to say I laughed until I cried, but when I'm done reading one of [Kupperman's] underground comics my shirt is literally soaking wet. This guy may have one of the best comedy brains on the planet right now. Conan O'Brien
reading night bisexual
At the State of the Union address last night, President Obama made history by using the words transgender, lesbian, and bisexual in that speech. It was the part of the speech where he was just reading Craigslist personals.
reading men long
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. E. W. Howe
reading thinking understanding
I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading. Dwight Yoakam
reading differences people
To me, there's a huge difference between criticism and reviewing. I really love reading good criticism of television and film. To me, a critic is someone who analyzes a show, describes it, talks about the people in it, puts it in historical context of other shows like it, compares it and stuff, and then talks about the intent of the show and whether it failed or didn't. Louis C. K.
reading side wrong
Too often we are reading about him on the wrong side of the newspaper-he should be on the back pages, not the front. Steve Bruce
reading writing decision
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. Robert Morgan
reading kids parent
If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time. Orson Scott Card
reading people example
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture. Mark Steyn
reading believe writing
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. Kurt Vonnegut
reading people doubt
[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limited edition, and reading it is anyhow a sort of permanent occupation. Katherine Anne Porter
reading scripts kind
Scripts [are] kind of a bare bones type of reading material. Karen Allen