Quotes about reading
reading thinking focus
I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience. The interchange between the reader and the work. For example, I know far too much about Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. Because I know as much as I do about their personal lives, I can't read their work without this interjecting itself. So if I had it to do over, I'd probably go the way of J.D. Salinger or Thomas Pynchon. And just stay out of it altogether and let all the focus be on the work itself and not on me. Tom Robbins
reading opportunity desire
Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.
reading tape headache
The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.
reading school home
I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.
reading writing good-times
Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.
reading writing dark
I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record. Tom Lehrer
reading book film
I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully. Tom Felton
reading thinking scripts
I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you? Tom Baker
reading fantasy old-testament
The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
reading gay thinking
I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from material that's already existed in the world, a reading of the world. But I think it speaks of a long tradition of gay reading of the world, before gays were allowed to be visible. Todd Haynes
reading mean kids
You gain all of the rights and privileges and respects that are afforded the majority, and that's ultimately what matters for your kids, or anybody - because we're all innocent of the fact that we are the way we are. But it also means the ways that you coped, and the languages and narratives and points of view that you had no choice but to make from the sidelines - and that often carried with them really acute readings of dominant society - those no longer have the same need.
reading writing missions
Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading. Steve Lopez
reading people empathy
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives. Stephen Covey
reading people giving
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true. V. S. Naipaul
reading thinking people
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
reading book thinking
In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read. Susie Bright
reading home men
An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made. Susanna Clarke
reading fighting artist
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life. Taryn Manning
reading book character
Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things. Stephen Mangan
reading play want
I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it. Stephen Lang
reading writing encyclopedia-britannica
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. Stephen Leacock
reading years
When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed. Stephen King
reading writing lessons
You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.
reading writing four
The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.
reading book character
Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's the kind of book that's impossible to put down once it has been picked up. It kept me reading far into the night. Straub builds otherworldly terror without ever losing touch with his attractive cast of youngsters, who age beautifully. Put this one high on your list.
reading writing self
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness.
reading class stories
That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.
reading creative checkouts
Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -
reading long way
Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair
reading writing skills
Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.
reading glasses too-much
Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.
reading shoes ties
Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.
reading force materials
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen. Stephen Ambrose