Quotes about reading
reading people mind
Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body. Paul Auster
reading school writing
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I absorbed the form, and I liked it, it was a good one, mostly the hard-boiled school, you know, Chandler, Hammett, and their heirs. That was the direction that interested me most.
reading technology thinking
I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's digital or paper, it doesn't matter. It's words that somebody is reading and getting an experience out of that reading. That's all that really matters.
reading writing detectives
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.
reading men important
I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn't understand it then, but now, now I understand it.
reading mind sound
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
reading school play
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous. Patrick Marber
reading writing ambition
Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better. Pat Conroy
reading book matter
If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good. Jupiter Hammon
reading dark mad
Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron,” Sebastian said approvingly. “Excellent choice.” “You have read this?” Alexei asked. “It’s not as good as Miss Davenport and the Dark Marquis, of course, but worlds better than Miss Sainsbury and the Mysterious Colonel.” Harry found himself rendered speechless. “I’m reading Miss Truesdale and the Silent Gentleman right now.” “Silent?” Harry echoed. “There is a noticeable lack of dialogue,” Sebastian confirmed. Julia Quinn
reading math perfect
Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, Im perfect. Judah Friedlander
reading perspective people
Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it puts what you do in perspective, and people don't like to see themselves or their activities in perspective. They don't feel quite comfortable with that. Nobody wants to acknowledge the insignificance of his life, and that is very often the net result of reading a poem. Joseph Brodsky
reading writing thinking
When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.
reading grief believe
Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe ... that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
reading school years
The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult. Leonardo DiCaprio
reading giving ears
Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts. Leonardo da Vinci
reading book writing
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. Oscar Wilde
reading giving understanding
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free. Paul Rand
reading writing mean
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Patrick Rothfuss
reading notes name-of-the-wind
It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?
reading boys joy
I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.
reading racism scary
Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases.
reading swimming sharks
I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.
reading comfortable
I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12. Paloma Faith
reading thinking worry
I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects. Lily Collins
reading two preparation
That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days. LeVar Burton
reading thinking birthright
I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being
reading fans potters
I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan. Lev Grossman
reading book weather
I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather. Leigh Hunt
reading men keys
If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady! Mr. T
reading thinking order
But, you have to watch them in order. That's very important because, as it turns out, stories have to be told in order. It's like reading a novel. There are times when it's tiring. And then, you get hooked and it's a page-turner, and you really want to keep reading. I do think there will be some fatigue that sets in. Mitchell Hurwitz
reading writing reading-and-writing
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts... Mark Vonnegut
reading writing thinking
The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service