Quotes about reading
reading people guy
You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and that’s all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you? Haruki Murakami
reading character black-and-white
No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer. Harlan Coben
reading book order
Read in order to live. Gustave Flaubert
reading sound strange
Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me. Gore Verbinski
reading garden light
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read. Gilbert K. Chesterton
reading cows pleasure
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. Lord Chesterfield
reading book book-reading
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. Lord Byron
reading writing poetry
The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it. John Ciardi
reading thinking views
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being. John Connolly
reading good-friend simple
When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good, friendly, tolerable relationships to start with, for the simple reason that you don't have to spend 24 hours figuring out how sensitive they are, and can you give them a line reading, or how do you have to give them direction. John Cleese
reading book science
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." Luis Walter Alvarez
reading luxury
Reading is my greatest luxury. Louise Brown
reading rome worry
If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about the end of the world and all sorts of other apocalyptic notions. When the tsars were finally overthrown, they were all reading tarot cards even as the revolutionaries were banging at the gates. Matt Taibbi
reading dark fiction
I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male dominated field from the outside, but from the inside what we know, those of us who read it, is that women buy the most crime fiction, they are by far the biggest readers of true crime, and there's a voracious appetite among women for these stories, and I know I feel it - since I was quite small I wanted to go to those dark places. Megan Abbott
reading tomatoes fiction
Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift.
reading skulls skeletons
Hey," Dopey said when I was finished reading. "How come they never mentioned me? I'm the one who found the skeleton." "Oh, yeah," Sleepy said in disgust. "Your role was really crucial. After all, if it wasn't for you, the guy's skull might still have been intact. Meg Cabot
reading trying paper
I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said.
reading writing giving
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. Maya Angelou
reading literature able
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. Marilyn vos Savant
reading thinking years
I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it had never occurred to me to think of them together. I learned that Calvin was the most widely read writer in England in Shakespeare's lifetime. He was translated and published in many editions. Marilynne Robinson
reading vulnerable comment
I'm vulnerable reading people's comments on Facebook. Matisyahu
reading happened
The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden. Edward Carpenter
reading thinking creative
Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative. Edward Boyden
reading ideas wow
I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that. Edie Falco
reading book ends
The end of reading is not more books but more life. Holbrook Jackson
reading book worth-reading
Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
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.