Quotes about reading
reading games details
Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details. Jim Evans
reading writing class
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills. Jeremy Lin
reading writing practice
Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy. Jennifer Haigh
reading people important
For people who are readers, reading is important to them. Jeff Bezos
reading people causes
For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.
reading guy trying
You liked the freshness of it, c'mon try it" and I said "oh God, I read it three of four times" and finally I said "all right, I want you guys to organize a reading and I want you to be there to see how terrible this is not going to work at all", so we had a table like this, and read the script, and it was just great. Jeff Bridges
reading biden disease
Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric. George Will
reading government organization
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.
reading work-out phrases
On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so on, that will compel the reader to continue reading - that stand a chance of really grabbing a reader - the writer has to work out of a place of, let's say, familiarity and affection. The matrix of the story has to be made out of stuff the writer really knows about and likes. The writer can't be stretching and (purely) inventing all the time. Well, I can't, anyway. George Saunders
reading writing thinking
I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading. Jeffery Deaver
reading writing firsts
Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it. Jean Paul
reading hero writing
No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story. Jerry Spinelli
reading school kids
When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't. Eoin Colfer
reading over-you series
The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.
reading writing long-ago
Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago. Jasper Fforde
reading eggs long
Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
reading good-day house
I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading. Jason Mewes
reading thinking government
I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the late Justice [Antoine] Scalia and there was no argument until then that localities and states and the federal government had a right, as we do with every amendment, to impose reasonable regulation. Hillary Clinton
reading responsibility needs
We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY. Herbert Hoover
reading i-hate-you christian-marriage
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. F. Scott Fitzgerald
reading race play
I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices. Eva Mendes
reading years two
Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff. Eugene H. Peterson
reading writing pleasure
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading. Ernest Hemingway
reading book reading-books
I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.
reading writing easy
Easy writing makes hard reading.
reading angel singing
Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me. Eudora Welty
reading writing voice
When I read, I hear what's on the page. I don't know whose voice it is, but some voice is reading to me, and when I write my own stories, I hear it, too.
reading writing heart
Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.
reading writing expression
Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.
reading light might
I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life. Jhonen Vasquez
reading kids littles
I don't want little kids reading my comics.
reading book hitting
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. Harper Lee
reading thinking two
Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.