Quotes about reading
reading joy plugs
One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind. Ishmael Reed
reading writing important
Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought. Iris Murdoch
reading men doors
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant. Ida B. Wells
reading feminist feminism
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. Gloria Steinem
reading writing people
People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I Harold Bloom
reading book age
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. J. Paul Getty
reading lexicon may
The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible. J. M. Coetzee
reading writing helping
Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading. J. K. Rowling
reading cat maps
It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.
reading upset-stomach knitting
Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.
reading people want
This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.
reading phases helping
Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.
reading writing hands
Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
reading stories lasts
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
reading writing hands
You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
reading animal night
My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. H. G. Wells
reading book men
The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. H. L. Mencken
reading letters may
[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.
reading littles scared
I always get a little bit scared reading reviews. Gugu Mbatha-Raw
reading stories ends
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story Guillermo Cabrera Infante
reading writing wife
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
reading literature university
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature. Grace Paley
reading greek literature
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. Gilbert Murray
reading school gone
If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles. Mark McCormack
reading pleasure young
Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation. Mario Vargas Llosa
reading protest insufficiency
Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life
reading beer gambling
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading. Mario Puzo
reading people family-and-friends
I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do. Nikki Giovanni
reading writing mean
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.
reading self people
Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves. Nicola Griffith
reading consistency television
I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film. But, it's all about the right projects. I'm reading different stuff, every single day. I'm actively seeking. Nico Tortorella
reading wife waiting
My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile. Nick Offerman
reading begets
Reading begets reading. Nick Hornby