Quotes about reading
reading sleep firsts
Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading. Germaine Greer
reading names twelve
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner. Frances Mayes
reading firsts grades
The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do. Fran Lebowitz
reading book thinking
I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other things that say what goes on in someone's head than the books they have. George Packer
reading men giving
I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished...I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and to meditation on it. George Muller
reading writing ideas
I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest! Fyodor Dostoevsky
reading hands people
The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them. Friedrich Nietzsche
reading shoes feet
True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy. John Ruskin
reading looks benefits
We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages. John Owen
reading men evil
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate. John Milton
reading writing men
There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.
reading drinking tea
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished. Norman Douglas
reading men fire
Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.
reading book quality
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. Norman Cousins
reading variables different
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading. Norm MacDonald
reading passion musical
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that. Nina Blackwood
reading dangerous knows
It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading. Mike Tyson
reading sleep brain
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. Miguel de Cervantes
reading writing mean
As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which was an unusually literate place - practically no one could read or write. And even in New England, the overall rate was only about 60 percent. That still means four out of 10 people couldn't put their name to a will. Robert Hass
reading thinking air
He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reading souls Rick Riordan
reading happened
The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden. Edward Carpenter
reading thinking creative
Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative. Edward Boyden
reading ideas wow
I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that. Edie Falco
reading book ends
The end of reading is not more books but more life. Holbrook Jackson
reading book worth-reading
Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
reading way horizon
One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program. John F. Kennedy
reading may matter
No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory. Jonathan Lethem
reading writing flow
Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.
reading people musical
Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual information - facts, more than just the surfaces of things.
reading heart artist
Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.
reading firsts lessons
But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone. Jonathan Franzen
reading book novel
To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book.
reading collaboration genuine
Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions. Jonathan Evison