Quotes about reading
reading laughing people
The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism. Corey Taylor
reading memorable kingdoms
I've got to be honest, and I'm not just saying this because the majority of you reading this live there, but I love the United Kingdom. I just flat-out love it.
reading heart voice
Words are the voice of the heart. Confucius
reading ignorance self
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
reading humility thinking
Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.
reading iowa mind
When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public. Daniel Woodrell
reading impact narrative
I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things. Dana Spiotta
reading order avid
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along. Curtis Sittenfeld
reading way fiction
And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.
reading book character
I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.
reading writing thinking
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
reading talking people
If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.
reading creativity creative
Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I'm interested in engaging that conversational aspect of creativity, I'm trying to find ways of achieving that in my films. Dave McKean
reading thinking bored
I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve. Dave Eggers
reading school looks
The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
reading house romance
If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or Cindy and John's House of Everlasting Love? I guarantee, your sanity and your indie street cred won't last a chapter. And they are very, very short chapters." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance. David Levithan
reading littles start-the-day
If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.
reading kids messages
John Kerry spent the day reading to preschoolers ... and the kids said Kerry actually lacked warmth and failed to articulate a clear message. David Letterman
reading august president
President Bush insisted that there was nothing in the August 6th, 2001 briefing, which was titled 'Bin Laden determined to attack the United States', that hinted what bin Laden was up to. Bush says that he would have moved mountains to stop the attack. Yeah, but he draws the line at reading a memo.
reading email vow
Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails.
reading book ipads
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad. David Karp
reading media practice
Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media. David Barton
reading doe good-reading
That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading. Debbie Reynolds
reading waking wake-up
The days of waking up and reading the overnight ratings are over. Dawn Ostroff
reading hands way
I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way to know if a sentence really works, without clunks or cul-de-sac clauses. Anna Quindlen
reading people world
Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.
reading blessing bars
Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.
reading sublime austen
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
reading writing gripping
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal in eloquent and evocative prose. Alas, Frey's writing suggests that this was not an option, and he came up with something else.
reading writing school
Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than high schools; Americans spend more time shopping than reading. ... Some of the most insightful writing about the American character over the nation's history has been about neither freedom nor democracy but about the crazed impulse to acquire things.
reading book individuality
A finished person is a boring person.
reading order important
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for. Angelina Grimke
reading levels cylinders
At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale reading remained linear, it is estimated that 1.05 Mach was attained at this time. Chuck Yeager