Quotes about reading
reading differences people
To me, there's a huge difference between criticism and reviewing. I really love reading good criticism of television and film. To me, a critic is someone who analyzes a show, describes it, talks about the people in it, puts it in historical context of other shows like it, compares it and stuff, and then talks about the intent of the show and whether it failed or didn't. Louis C. K.
reading side wrong
Too often we are reading about him on the wrong side of the newspaper-he should be on the back pages, not the front. Steve Bruce
reading writing decision
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. Robert Morgan
reading kids parent
If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time. Orson Scott Card
reading people example
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture. Mark Steyn
reading believe writing
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. Kurt Vonnegut
reading email vow
Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails. David Letterman
reading book ipads
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad. David Karp
reading media practice
Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media. David Barton
reading thinking heaven
We can enjoy Heaven now. We can have half of the enjoyment ahead of time by looking forward to it, thinking about it, reading about it and anticipating it. David Berg
reading lines bills
It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines. David Maraniss
reading kind novel
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels... Dav Pilkey
reading book kids
I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that. Danny Boyle
reading sacrifice greek
Meaning can be usually be approximated, but often by sacrificing style. When I review my translations into Spanish, that's what I'm most concerned with, reading the sentences aloud in Spanish to make sure they sound the way I want them to. To be honest, I much prefer being translated into Greek or Japanese; in those cases, you have no way of being involved, and no pressure. Daniel Alarcon
reading would-be benefits
I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading authors who's work was composed in the languages I happen to have learned.
reading character feelings
I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else. Dakota Fanning
reading scripts looking-forward
I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it. Colin Baker
reading fiction science-fiction
I do enjoy reading some science fiction. Colin Farrell
reading years four
I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it was really good. So I burnt it all. Cliff Curtis
reading men one-day
It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating -- after all, they are women -- but they cannot be curmudgeons. Cleveland Amory
reading decent persons
the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it. Dan Savage
reading writing self
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader. Cynthia Ozick
reading godly world
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding. Billy Graham
reading political earth
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news. Bjork
reading intelligent people
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it. Stephen Jay Gould
reading book giving
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading. Alice James
reading house stories
I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while. Alice Munro
reading imagination joy
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination. Alice Hoffman
reading pages-turning people
Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.
reading kissing veils
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. Anne Michaels
reading mind great-work
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering. Anne Lamott
reading writing thinking
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.
reading writing heart
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship