Quotes about reading
reading mean thinking
I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone. Samuel West
reading force paragraph
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
reading light acting
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
reading remembered
What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. Samuel Johnson
reading memorable mind
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. Sarah Orne Jewett
reading writing should
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. Wallace Stevens
reading technology favors
I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price. Walter Jon Williams
reading people suffering
Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die. Walter Kaufmann
reading investigation mass
The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation. Walter Lippmann
reading crawling feels
One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work. Voltaire
reading soul enlightened
Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.
reading writing faces
Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry William Empson
reading thinking bridges
I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions of poetry have been getting far off from normal life, so that to have a prose bridge makes reading poetry seem more natural.
reading world remember
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody. William Ernest Henley
reading book good-book
You live several lives while reading [a good book]. William Styron
reading writing years
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time. Wilkie Collins
reading silent conversation
What is reading but silent conversation? Walter Savage Landor
reading world annoying
If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen. Walter Scott
reading kids medicine
We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, ‘Take this or you’re going to die.’ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional. Walter Dean Myers
reading community certain
There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
reading exercise wonderful
We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
reading kids needs
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
reading optional
Reading is not optional.
reading leisure my-friends
I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it. Winston Churchill
reading careers great-things
Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person. Willie McCovey
reading writing today
Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation. William Zinsser
reading cutting trying
I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over it once more, reading it aloud, and am always amazed at how much clutter can still be cut.
reading writing men
Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I'd say I learned by reading the men and women who were doing the kind of writing I wanted to do and trying to figure out how they did it.
reading writing white
Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.
reading writing easy
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
reading eye mind
Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their eyes. But in fact they hear what they are reading far more than you realize.
reading writing next
Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.
reading writing thinking
By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking. William Safire