Quotes about reading
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 way horizon
One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program. John F. Kennedy
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
reading past self
Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously? Joyce Carol Oates
reading thinking
I am always reading or thinking about reading.
reading want should
Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie. Jodie Foster
reading today leisure
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. Jimmy Buffett
reading simple numbers
The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it. George M. Whitesides
reading writing trying
Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with it and understand it and express it and engage with it. And to me it's a natural extension of reading. Emily Perkins
reading want earth
Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon? Elizabeth Gilbert
reading talking red-flags
[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started meeting people and talking to them, and the more I heard the stories, the more red flags kept popping up. There was this disconnect between this person [Todd Willingham] that I'm reading in the court records, the prosecutor's statements, and this person that I'm learning about.
reading angel heaven
The other day when we were reading The Little Mermaid again, at the part where it says that only human souls can go up to heaven and mermaids can't, you (Daria) said, 'See that's like Papa. He lives in heaven. With the angels' Ekaterina Gordeeva
reading pennsylvania lawyer
A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!. Jimmy Fallon
reading tunnels years
I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people. John Corbett
reading memorable character
Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller. John Burnham Schwartz
reading people noir
I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully. Joe Abercrombie
reading moon artist
It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere. Joan Chen
reading tvs
wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading. John Irving
reading lists life-is
My life is a reading list.
reading light hands
Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into the delivery room when the light was on. From the dormitory, they could hear Dr. Larch's reading voice. Although Candy held tightly to his hand, Homer was inclined to hurry - in order not to miss the bedtime story.
reading men order
In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on. John Henrik Clarke
reading thinking news
When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"? John Gallagher, Jr.
reading skills illusion
The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves. John Murphy
reading giving comeback
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. John Millington Synge
reading men air
By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated. John Dewey