Quotes about reading
reading writing two
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. Stephen King
reading coffee light
Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.
reading men maps
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. Stephen Hawking
reading peanuts knows
Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. Stephan Pastis
reading people suffering
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. Stendhal
reading mean democracy
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that. Stanley Crouch
reading attachment cities
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then only by chance, but whose existence nonetheless has for us a special if uncanny meaning. For me the Eiffel Tower is just such a friend, and not merely because it happens to be the symbol of a city, for Paris leaves me neither hot nor cold. I first became aware of this attachment of mine when reading in the paper about plans for its demolition, the mere thought of which filled me with alarm. Stanislaw Lem
reading should sonnet
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. Spike Milligan
reading school boys
It didn't help matters that I was shy and wore glasses. I was never one to stand out in the crowd. I liked to stay in corners. And I was happiest when I was alone reading. That and the good grades I got in school had doomed any chance of being popular with my peers. So it was a foregone conclusion that boys like Hardy were never going to take notice of me. Lisa Kleypas
reading stories world
What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way. Linda Sue Park
reading athlete training
Reading for writers is like training for athletes.
reading light feelings
There’s the feeling, and the right reading - that’s all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling. Linda McCartney
reading addiction remember
What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read. Linda Ronstadt
reading oxygen
Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen. Linda Grant
reading mean thinking
If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more. Linda Fiorentino
reading kind bizarre
The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it. Lil Wayne
reading circles people
I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people. Leo Tolstoy
reading umpires mind
In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. Leo Durocher
reading wish action
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon. Leo Buscaglia
reading night way
I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night. Lauren Groff
reading writing goal
One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading. Lauren Conrad
reading men black
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten. Larry Niven
reading book night
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call Larry McMurtry
reading thinking america
I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will. Lewis H. Lapham
reading water swim
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings Joseph Campbell
reading people understanding
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.
reading relax way
Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on. Richard Carlson
reading writing thinking
I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained. Toni Morrison
reading college ideas
I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college. Tom Perrotta
reading different scripts
Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different. Tom Hanks
reading sunday lessons-to-be-learned
Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service. Tom Clancy
reading school sunday
I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.
reading library way
The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read