Quotes about reading
reading speed-reading speed
I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander. Isaac Asimov
reading book shopping
I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. Francisco Costa
reading writing wish
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. Francis Quarles
reading mean writing
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. There was no gap during which the symbols were unraveled. Ian Mcewan
reading humanity deny
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
reading self elements
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
reading terrorist
I am about (a) terrorist reading a top-secret report. Porter Goss
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 thinking contemporary
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality. Gore Vidal
reading social said
The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography
reading party men
I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy. Gillian Flynn
reading home independence
A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners. Harvey Milk
reading kids bored
I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it. Harvey Weinstein
reading quitting playboy
I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit. Harold Ramis
reading cutting interesting
But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes. Griffin Dunne
reading mean media
Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing. James Blunt
reading writing thinking
if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period. Jamaica Kincaid
reading reflection giving
I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm. Jaime Murray
reading deep-understanding age
From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page. Jacqueline Woodson
reading kind young
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. Jacques Derrida
reading intellectual important
no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it. Jacques Barzun
reading writing cutting
One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.
reading past mirrors
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information. James Gleick
reading age delight
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age. Isaac Disraeli
reading writing ideas
I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest! Fyodor Dostoevsky
reading hands people
The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them. Friedrich Nietzsche
reading hero heart
Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames! Franz Grillparzer
reading fiction passionate
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become. Jeanette Winterson
reading want facts
I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.
reading waiting stories
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next.
reading wild-things
Reading is where the wild things are.
reading soul rendezvous
Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.