Quotes about reading
reading believe done
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. Ursula K. Le Guin
reading aunt said
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.
reading fake literature
Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report.
reading hero creativity
Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won. Twyla Tharp
reading literature chekhov
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much. Vladimir Putin
reading gossip crowds
Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding. William H. Gass
reading thinking should
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. William Godwin
reading wine mean
What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace? William Gurnall
reading passion envy
It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why this writer could not possibly like that one, would indeed consider him a menace. Literature is a battleground of conflicting faiths, and nobler passions than envy are involved. Wilfrid Sheed
reading thinking satisfaction
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. Wilfred Owen
reading fighting years
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
reading twilight first-love
Isn't it supposed to be like this?" He smiled. "The glory of first love, and all that. It's incredible, isn't it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?" "Very different," I agreed. "More forceful than I'd imagined. Stephenie Meyer
reading thinking done
When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was that it wasn’t a bad sad at all. It was just something that made everyone look around at each other and know that they were there. Sam and Patrick looked at me. And I looked at them. And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that’s all you can ever ask from a friend. Stephen Chbosky
reading book remember
Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm. Thomas Harris
reading matter argument
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. Thomas Hardy
reading criticism body
The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize. Thomas B. Macaulay
reading messages want
My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that. I don't want to read your private stuff. Tim Cook
reading labels littles
Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. Tim Berners-Lee
reading class community
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge. Thomas Love Peacock
reading thinking years
From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice. Thomas Jefferson
reading mean men
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.
reading chemistry chemicals
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
reading san-francisco bishops
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop. Thom Gunn
reading factions
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
reading paper papers
I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me. Rebecca Loos
reading writing reflection
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. Ryszard Kapuscinski
reading enjoy ifs
If you enjoy reading something, read it. S. E. Hinton
reading achievement world
Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity. . . . Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way. Ron Rash
reading simple looks
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading. Roland Barthes
reading guests process
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.
reading thinking talking
I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing ... I like to think before I speak (softly). Susan Cain
reading book exercise
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. Studs Terkel
reading character people
It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are. Stuart Woods