Quotes about reading
reading facts chance
Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact. Noam Chomsky
reading looks stamps
Each servant stamps the reader with a look. John Ashbery
reading different might
It never seems to occur to anyone that each reader is different, and that even those who might be said to resemble each other will each bring an individual set of experiences and references to their reading, and interpret and misinterpret it according to these.
reading space pleasure
Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.
reading book opposites
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote. Joe Strummer
reading ideas trying
I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts. Joe Meno
reading character opportunity
In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show. When you're reading a character's thoughts or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me that's what the whole point of fiction is.
reading writing guarantees-that
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading. Jodi Picoult
reading squares guy
He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.
reading past chloe
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
reading home house
The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.
reading thinking sight
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading. John Gould
reading successful pursuit-of-happiness
Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness. John Grisham
reading get-better brokers
I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better
reading night dying
Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining. John Green
reading world quiet
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.
reading writing thinking
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.
reading people understanding
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.
reading people style
I got my style from a lot of different people, even my style of reading, even Johnny Carson inspired me. Patti Smith
reading drinking ideas
I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
reading writing long
It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.
reading tickets discounts
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. Mary Schmich
reading school gone
If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles. Mark McCormack
reading pleasure young
Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation. Mario Vargas Llosa
reading protest insufficiency
Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life
reading beer gambling
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading. Mario Puzo
reading people family-and-friends
I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do. Nikki Giovanni
reading writing mean
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.
reading self people
Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves. Nicola Griffith
reading consistency television
I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film. But, it's all about the right projects. I'm reading different stuff, every single day. I'm actively seeking. Nico Tortorella
reading wife waiting
My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile. Nick Offerman
reading begets
Reading begets reading. Nick Hornby
reading opportunity space
It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.