Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Scalzi

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.

Martin Luther

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

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.

Martin Luther

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

Martin Luther

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.

Mark Strand

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

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

Marilyn Hacker

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.

Nick Cave

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

It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.

Nancy Horan

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

I'm amazed at how Muslims keep their humanity after reading the Koran.

Seth Grahame-Smith

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

Seth Grahame-Smith

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

Seth Rogen

The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you.

Scott Simon

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.

Scott Foley

As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.

Seth Godin

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

Ravi Zacharias

You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will plan you. And so, I make a disciplined life of the study of the scriptures, reading the word every day.

Todd Solondz

At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.

Sloane Crosley

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.

Siri Hustvedt

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

Siri Hustvedt

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

Simon Van Booy

Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.

Socrates

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

Michael Scott

I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure-but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary 'tools,' etc.

Theodore Roosevelt

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Terry McMillan

I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.

Terry Pratchett

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Margaret Mitchell

Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.

Margaret Haddix

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.