Quotes about reading
reading mash-up literature-history
Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious. Neil Gaiman
reading hands insane
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
reading writing artist
I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette... and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.
reading school mean
I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had any particular aptitude in them, but because normally on the first day of school they'd hand out schoolbooks, and I'd read them--which would mean that I'd know what was coming up, because I'd read it.
reading believe exercise
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.
reading important eating
Reading is more important to me than eating. John Piper
reading cost movement
If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier. John Wilbanks
reading knowing giving
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people. John Wesley
reading people house
There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone’s house, and next to the toilet they have a huge basket of magazines, I find that repellent. I recommend against straining while reading. John Waters
reading book impossible
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.
reading book buying
If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. John Ruskin
reading home men
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders. John Steinbeck
reading men thinking
I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood. Nicolas Cage
reading character thinking
I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.
reading reality library
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. Nicholson Baker
reading reality thinking
Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.
reading writing firsts
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
reading years forget
I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to. Norah Jones
reading dirty people
... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all. Nora Ephron
reading reality opposites
Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up.
reading bliss better-person
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
reading blow drills
Told you not to tell her.” “That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship.” “Build a relationship.” Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. “You've been reading again.” “Blow me. Nora Roberts
reading relax world
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.
reading men voice
At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on. Nikolai Gogol
reading mean perfection
In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations. Nikola Tesla
reading privilege steps
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. Nicole Krauss
reading people capable
Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads. Nasser Hussain
reading book unread-books
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
reading thinking long
I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
reading danger overprotective
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry. N. T. Wright
reading constitution recreation
Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole. Mort Sahl
reading book scripts
I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books. Morris Chestnut
reading shoes feet
True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.