Quotes about reading
reading prove-it prove
I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right. Samuel Johnson
reading criticism purpose
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
reading writing people
It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.
reading writing enjoy-life
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
reading men political
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
reading kids thinking
I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having. Samantha Bee
reading learning hands
I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street Sam Walton
reading taught needed
We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it. Rulon Gardner
reading passionate youth
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. Rufus Choate
reading models courses
I wasnt a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out. Rufus Sewell
reading literacy born-again
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again. Rumer Godden
reading iphone faust
For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. Rufus Wainwright
reading writing hey
When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious." Roxane Gay
reading writing delusion
With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.
reading breathing firsts
Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent. Robert Jordan
reading labyrinth construction
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths… Roberto Bolano
reading writing important
Reading is more important than writing.
reading sadness alive
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
reading book certain
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
reading past thinking
There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive Robertson Davies
reading useless digestion
Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.
reading writing literature
I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more. Robert Stone
reading calm calm-down
The more you read, the more you calm down. Robert M. Pirsig
reading writing easy
It takes hard writing to make easy reading. Robert Louis Stevenson
reading cookies areas
In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies! Wally Amos
reading book audience
If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it. Wally Lamb
reading doing-nothing wildlife
I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it. Viswanathan Anand
reading writing iron
My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me. Walt Whitman
reading college ideas
I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college. Tom Perrotta
reading different scripts
Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different. Tom Hanks
reading sunday lessons-to-be-learned
Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service. Tom Clancy
reading school sunday
I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.
reading library way
The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read