Quotes about reading
reading thinking law-of-attraction
Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. So when you think a sustained thought it is immediately sent out into the Universe. That thought magnetically attaches itself to the like frequency, and then within seconds sends the reading of that frequency back to you through your feelings. Put another way, your feelings are communicated back to you from the Universe, telling you what frequency you are currently on. Your feelings are your frequency feedback mechanism! Jack Canfield
reading successful thinking
If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people. You need to ask them to share their success strategies with you. Then try them on and see if they fit for you. Experiment with doing what they do, reading what they read, thinking the way they think, and so on. If the new ways of thinking and behaving work, adopt them. If not, drop them, and keep looking and experimenting. Jack Canfield
reading book writing
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. J. D. Salinger
reading together wedding-speech
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. J. D. Salinger
reading parent creepy
I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since. J. J. Abrams
reading sentences terrific
the sentence im reading is terrific ... J. D. Salinger
reading important way
Reading is the most important way to prepare for life. Lois Lowry
reading adventure marvelous
Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have. Lloyd Alexander
reading literature different
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. Manuel Puig
reading shoes wish
I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time. Manolo Blahnik
reading book evil
To read too many books is harmful. Mao Zedong
reading character voice
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like. Madeleine L'Engle
reading creator
In reading we must become creators. Madeleine L'Engle
reading phones intimate-conversation
The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people. Lynne Truss
reading writing stories
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse. Lucy Maud Montgomery
reading no-point
I see no point in reading. Louis XIV
reading book home
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. Louisa May Alcott
reading eye flirting
If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment! When can I see you?” “Certainly not until you finish An Imperial Affliction.” I enjoyed being coy. “Then I’d better hang up and start reading.” “You’d better,” I said, and the line clicked dead without another word. Flirting was new to me, but I liked it. John Green
reading book helping
Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone. John Green
reading writing ideas
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else. John Green
reading writing talking
[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use. John Green
reading writing where-you-are
This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are. John Green
reading important
Reading is important. John Garfield
reading writing printed-word
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images. John Gardner
reading intelligent experience
No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience. John Fowles
reading may matter
No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory. Jonathan Lethem
reading writing flow
Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other. Jonathan Lethem
reading people musical
Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual information - facts, more than just the surfaces of things. Jonathan Lethem
reading heart artist
Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone. Jonathan Lethem
reading firsts lessons
But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. Jonathan Franzen
reading book novel
To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book. Jonathan Franzen
reading collaboration genuine
Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions. Jonathan Evison
reading boring
Oh my god... Kerry is boring even when Bush is reading him. Jon Stewart