Quotes about reading
reading thinking study
I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from. Laura Vandervoort
reading thank-god depth
I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths. John Keats
reading book ignorance
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. John Kenneth Galbraith
reading kids dragons
I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover. Julie Kagawa
reading writing trying
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. Joyce Carol Oates
reading writing taste
You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide. Justin Cronin
reading writing practice
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so. Julianna Baggott
reading sleep going-to-sleep
I cannot go to sleep without reading. Julianne Hough
reading levels diverse
In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading. Juan Goytisolo
reading knows suspects
The less we know the more we suspect Josh Billings
reading writing request
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once. Karl Kraus
reading writing may
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
reading writing acting
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.
reading book book-reading
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
reading kind wells
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.
reading thinking circles
My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm. Pamela Anderson
reading creative be-creative
One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not. Oswald Spengler
reading book writing
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave. Oscar Wilde
reading apology waiting
If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now. Kanye West
reading accusing-me accusing
Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley Kami Garcia
reading white eight
It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it. June Lockhart
reading home moon
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space above us". He describes the fragility of our existence in poetic terms: "the atmospheric layer is so thin that it cannot be represented on any globe with even the finest brushstroke. At its thickest, it is only a few fractions of a millionth of the Earth's radius. This thin layer is what makes the difference between our planet and the sterile landscape of the moon." After reading that, one does feel the need to take better care of this fragile layer.
reading journey discovery
Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery. Paul Theroux
reading world knows
Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.
reading writing people
Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level. John Scalzi
reading writing practice
I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian. Martin Luther
reading men doe
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
reading thinking dying
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.
reading biblical giving
You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
reading government world
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world. Mark Strand
reading stories written
We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.
reading years six
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. Marilyn Hacker
reading insane stories
I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time. Nick Cave