Quotes about reading
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. Cynthia Ozick
reading book sin
I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself. William Shakespeare
reading pages reddit
If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there. Alexis Ohanian
reading years eight
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me. Jane Campion
reading enemy quitting
Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance. Jan Karon
reading tired substance
I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem. Jamie Farr
reading glasses vision
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision. Agnes Repplier
reading character incidents
For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
reading world too-much
Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much. Alan Tudyk
reading serious kind
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. Charlotte Bronte
reading hands mind
Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind? Edward Abbey
reading men biographies
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
reading worth-reading ifs
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.
reading
I was reading the throw. He would have been out.
reading tubes
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube Bill Sienkiewicz
reading eye thinking
As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. C. S. Lewis
reading important acquire
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.
reading two eating
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
reading knows not-alone
We read to know we are not alone.
reading eye night
But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
reading character scripts
Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond. Cathy Moriarty
reading mean idols
There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean. Carrie Underwood
reading satisfaction given
Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else. Bill Blass
reading rocks guy
A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals! Bill Bruford
reading
I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read, Harold Bloom
reading thinking literature
I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something. Isabel Allende
reading dark would-be
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.
reading complaints can-do
The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice. Irving Howe
reading sunday perfect
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. Irving Babbitt
reading brain proof
... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading. George Eliot
reading mind done
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
reading able hunger
There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
reading rich work
August's work is like reading a rich novel,