Quotes about reading
reading lord cases
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading. Rick Riordan
reading writing house
A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry. Richard Brautigan
reading writing easy
Easy writings curse is hard reading. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
reading writing easy
Easy writing's curst hard reading.
reading writing damn
Good reading makes for damn hard writing.
reading ignorance self-confidence
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t fallen into the fatal folly of reading anything I could lay hands on. With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist. Robert A. Heinlein
reading smell people
I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do. Rihanna
reading book knows
I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. Tim O'Brien
reading cake soul
Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
reading machines done
I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done. Steven Wright
reading two glasses
I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.
reading speed bookmarks
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.
reading writing gears
It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.
reading people stuff
I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies. Steven Soderbergh
reading relax way
Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on. Richard Carlson
reading writing thinking
I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained. Toni Morrison
reading paper papers
I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me. Rebecca Loos
reading book men
This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man. Victor Hugo
reading pleasure pleasure-of-reading
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. Vernon Lee
reading creating perfect
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading! Veronica Roth
reading may firsts
There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that. Robert Benchley
reading library want
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry Rita Dove
reading thinking play
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
reading thinking love-of-reading
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer
reading night cycling
I read a lot of The Canterbury Tales on my phone, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading. Rick Moody
reading lunch issues
There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.
reading editing different-experiences
Whenever I'm doing any film, there's always three different things. There's the script, which is really just a blueprint. And then, you shoot the movie and it's an entirely different experience than you would expect from reading the script. And then, there's the whole post process and the editing, and it becomes something else entirely. Thomas Ian Nicholas
reading rome turkeys
My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form. Timothy Leary
reading want dawn
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine. Rumi
reading names chinese
The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement. Tom Peters
reading believe book
I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.
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.