Quotes about reading
reading men
Reading maketh a full man. Francis Bacon
reading writing men
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
reading talking choices
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way. Jennifer Connelly
reading writing way
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well. Jennifer Egan
reading writing hands
I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.
reading interesting nourishment
Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,
reading writing levels
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.
reading kids writing
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave me The Lord of the Rings way too early for me to fully understand what I was reading, which was actually kind of cool. It was almost better - comprehension's overrated when you're reading. Jeff Vandermeer
reading past influence
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.
reading light might
I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life. Jhonen Vasquez
reading kids littles
I don't want little kids reading my comics.
reading book hitting
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. Harper Lee
reading thinking two
Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
reading struggle divorce
After my divorce, I was struggling to find my own voice. Through reading, I gained my power back. Halle Berry
reading writing mean
Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him. Greil Marcus
reading writing people
Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment. Holly Valance
reading pages transformation
It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life. Ian Somerhalder
reading animal smell
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so. Iain Banks
reading culture fiction
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
reading drug i-can
I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs. Hugo Chavez
reading needs lasts
For the last episode [of Downton Abbey], you'll need some handkerchiefs. I needed handkerchiefs reading it. It wasn't because it necessarily moved me while reading it, but it was the experience of reading it when I realized it was the last time I was ever going to be reading one of those scripts. That was quite terminal. Hugh Bonneville
reading writing editing
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading. Horace
reading progress saws
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc. George Bernard Shaw
reading kids parent
When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool. Fred Durst
reading book skulls
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? Franz Kafka
reading ice sea
If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
reading rooms staying
Nowadays, we're more into staying in our rooms and reading Nietzsche. Jimmy Page
reading rich work
August's work is like reading a rich novel,
reading thinking class
I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out. But I spent a lot of time reading history, sociology, psychology - reading everything except what I was supposed to read for class the next day. Bernie Sanders
reading script
I've been reading script after script after script, Jesse McCartney
reading since
I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,
reading scores
I know the reading scores go up because I do that.
reading time
It's just about being in the right place at the right time and reading the quarterback.