Quotes about reading
reading should-have ideas
I was studying international business and instead of doing what I should have been doing which was studying for exams and figuring out what type of business I really wanted to do I was cooking for all of my friends and reading cookbooks and really inspired by the idea of travel and types of foods around the world and I wanted to cook them. David Myers
reading path taught
Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path. Carl Sagan
reading writing cosmos
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.
reading writing thinking
The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even if you're a writer who has avoided institutions your whole life, you're still going to be reading a lot of writers who have MFAs, and are affiliated with universities. Chad Harbach
reading people parent
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. Caroline Kennedy
reading imagination soul
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
reading doe quests
Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species. Camille Paglia
reading rise-of-china rising
I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass. Caitlin Moran
reading school thinking
I think school is so important. I was good student. A rebel, but I did well in my studies. I don't close myself to anything. I liked reading and I still love learning. I loved history and German. Bruno Tonioli
reading biographies thrillers
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
reading jewels testicles
One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified. Cathleen Schine
reading writing tv-shows
I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow the TV show while I read. TV doesn't require a lot of brainpower. Chris Abani
reading emotional thinking
I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project, or trying to get involved with a project, or thinking about a project, and what particular emotional flavor that brings. To me, it's never really about planning the next thing, or the career arc. It's about investigating how I feel, from project to project, and finding things that I haven't explored and what that would be like. Chiwetel Ejiofor
reading struggle writing
When I'm writing, I really want to satisfy myself. I've got a story that I am working on and struggling with, and I want to tell it the most effective way I can. That's really what I struggle with. And the thought of who may be reading it may be there somewhere in the back of my mind - I'll never say it's not there because I don't know - but it's not really what I'm thinking about. Chinua Achebe
reading character blue
At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather: how lovely it was that the sun had come out. This despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria; we didn’t have snow, we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
reading yankees years
I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts and readings. We did Damn Yankees together and then we did Xanadu. Jane did all the workshops of Xanadu before it moved to Broadway. She's hysterical and our voices blended. We had a similar sensibility. Cheyenne Jackson
reading voice envy
We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who hasn't at one point or another had that why not me? voice pop into the interior mix when something good has happened to someone else. Cheryl Strayed
reading mentor december
I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.
reading looks world
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. Charlize Theron
reading book thinking
I cannot sit and think; books think for me. Charles Lamb
reading ears needs
Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.
reading thinking walking
When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.
reading might pages
We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it. Charlaine Harris
reading bullshit done
Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?" "I killed a chicken. And I cooked it." "Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is reading that as a false." -Eric Northman, Sookie Stackhouse
reading rivers details
I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period - 1950-1956 - and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI's and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture. Chang-Rae Lee
reading media people
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet. Chaim Potok
reading order alive
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.
reading book sometimes
Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading. Charlie Kaufman
reading ass ifs
If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading. Charlie Munger
reading ideas habit
If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.
reading thinking ifs
It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.
reading magazines levels
...by regularly reading business newspaper and magazines I am exposed to an enormous amount of material at the micro level.. I find that what I see going on there pretty much informs me about what's happening at the macro level.
reading self curiosity
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.