Quotes about reading
reading believe writing
I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing. Kathryn Lasky
reading writing thinking
For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces The Constitution of Liberty and Law, Legislation and Liberty that I really came to think this principle as having wider application. Margaret Thatcher
reading different pieces
Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way. Margaret Atwood
reading water-bottles hot
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.
reading simple worry
A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death. P. J. O'Rourke
reading be-confident stupid-sports
Reading won't have the confidence to be confident Paul Merson
reading college answers
College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life. Paul Mellon
reading people reason
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry Paul Muldoon
reading
I do a lot of readings.
reading half culture
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. Oscar Wilde
reading thinking parent
Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that. Maeve Binchy
reading thinking
... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. Louis L'Amour
reading writing order
the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves. Lorrie Moore
reading insightful want
The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants. Liz Phair
reading people lines
Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines. Margaret Millar
reading thinking next
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do. Margaret Oliphant
reading ideas done
When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared. Margaret Mahy
reading writing different
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
reading writing creative
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.
reading writing support
I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.
reading kind
Reading about myself on Perez Hilton was kind of the weirdest thing ever. Melissa Benoist
reading writing perfect
Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand. Melissa Bank
reading done gone
I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me. Melanie Lynskey
reading people soul
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had. Mark Twain
reading believe paradise
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
reading believe eye
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.
reading want classic
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
reading-books
Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.
reading tickets discounts
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. Mary Schmich
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