Quotes about reading
reading soul
Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul. Molly Ivins
reading cities next-day
Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day. Mike Schmidt
reading creative trying
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading. Nathalie Sarraute
reading ballet world
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world, Natalia Makarova
reading ohio drawing
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths. Natalie Babbitt
reading weather yesterday
Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather. Nancy Mitford
reading book consciousness
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. Katherine Mansfield
reading secret happy-thoughts
The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.
reading differences profound
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life. Katherine Paterson
reading imagination creative
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
reading garden keys
Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
reading first-love would-be
I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him. Kate Fleetwood
reading people profound
I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved. Kate DiCamillo
reading knights together
He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after.
reading magic stories
And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
reading crime
I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed. Karin Slaughter
reading way better-ways
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
reading sunday years
I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two. Karen Thompson Walker
reading writing editors
Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.
reading recipes figures
You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about. Kristen Bell
reading actors scripts
As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good. Kevin Nealon
reading school age
I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless. Kevin O'Leary
reading thinking trying
I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in. Ice Cube
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.