Quotes about reading
reading book eye
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all. Ralph Waldo Emerson
reading book men
A man is known by the books he reads.
reading library paper
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.
reading writing lines
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
reading book books-and-reading
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
reading mean thinking
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important. Scarlett Thomas
reading grandmother way
Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying. Lily King
reading people fiction
I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.
reading mood proper-time
There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere Lin Yutang
reading men world
The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.
reading boxers wonderful
When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem. Liam Neeson
reading emotion introvert
Some findings reveal extroverts as more adept at reading nonverbal cues, and attribute this to the extrovert's greater interest and experience with social interactions. Another line of research using subliminal images of facial emotion found introverts to be more sensitive to the differences, and hypothesized that this may be why introverts regulate the amount of incoming social information. Laurie Helgoe
reading perspective exit
Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.
reading symphony judging
Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be. Laurie Anderson
reading class symbolism
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward? Laurie Halse Anderson
reading recovery kissing
I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...
reading giving pleasure
Reading will give you lasting pleasure. Laura Bush
reading book brilliant
I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant. Thom Yorke
reading lines bankers
I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading. Terry Pratchett
reading writing cake
You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.
reading knitting romance
She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel
reading kind internet
When you're reading a newspaper and you're seeing ads on the page, it's not kind of invasive. Like, it's on the page next to the article. You can look at it or not. You can turn the page when you're ready. On the internet, the ads - many of the ads - just are so controlling. They insist that you see them. Terry Gross
reading practice literature
Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author. Terry Eagleton
reading understanding movement
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.
reading space enabling
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.
reading necklaces counting
Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.
reading thinking together
I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is very astute. McEwan, I read a bit. But I suppose it's more the ideological phenomenon that they represent together that interests me.
reading people trying
I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it. Terri Windling
reading important ordinary
The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone. Terence McKenna
reading interesting important
Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day. Teju Cole
reading writing people
The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on and on about this, and I never tire of reading him on the subject, because I agree very deeply with it.
reading doe obscurity
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help. Randall Jarrell
reading air faithful
[Robert] Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even "at least not systematic"; but how systematically Frostian the worst of his later poems are! His good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his Complete Poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.