Quotes about reading
reading mean writing
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. There was no gap during which the symbols were unraveled. Ian Mcewan
reading humanity deny
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.
reading self elements
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
reading terrorist
I am about (a) terrorist reading a top-secret report. Porter Goss
reading opportunity light
Grasp the opportunity with both hands to feel really very special as an Indian reading these quotes on the Indian Independence Day. A number of famous and reputed persons have thrown some light on the chapter of Indian Independence. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!" Hu Shih
reading listening news
Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is. Howard Schultz
reading home independence
A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners. Harvey Milk
reading kids bored
I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it. Harvey Weinstein
reading quitting playboy
I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit. Harold Ramis
reading cutting interesting
But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes. Griffin Dunne
reading mean media
Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing. James Blunt
reading writing thinking
if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period. Jamaica Kincaid
reading reflection giving
I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm. Jaime Murray
reading deep-understanding age
From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page. Jacqueline Woodson
reading kind young
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. Jacques Derrida
reading intellectual important
no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it. Jacques Barzun
reading writing cutting
One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.
reading past mirrors
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information. James Gleick
reading age delight
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age. Isaac Disraeli
reading great-work states
A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.
reading book book-banning
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. Isaac Asimov
reading speed-reading speed
I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.
reading sunday perfect
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. Irving Babbitt
reading diversity meditation
I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And now comes this fine meditation on his experience of coming to poetry, of making the poem and the months surrounding its making-a testament to the strength and significance of poetry in American culture, something not always seen or easily measured. Today Is For All of Us, One Today is a necessary intervention into the ongoing conversation about the role of poetry in public life. Natasha Trethewey
reading people joy
Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience. Nancy Pearl
reading men literary-merit
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. Marcel Proust
reading reality self
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.
reading heart reality
The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.
reading communication miracle
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
reading writing men
A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking. Joseph Addison
reading addiction
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
reading men stories
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.
reading space empty
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.