Quotes about reading
reading exercise healthy
I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful. T. S. Eliot
reading poetry-is ifs
We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.
reading persons
Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape. Sylvia Browne
reading different novel
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. Sydney Pollack
reading pages next
Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin... Suzanne Weyn
reading talking different
I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is-a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate. Suzanne Somers
reading literature passports
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom. Susan Sontag
reading rereading
Most of my reading is rereading.
reading book waiting
Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.
reading fiction taxation
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this. Rose Macaulay
reading different poetic
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. Umberto Eco
reading mean games
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.
reading book kids
Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading. Tyler Hilton
reading character perspective
I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a travellers perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides. Trudi Canavan
reading fasting depth
I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly. Troy Polamalu
reading book thinking
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. Truman Capote
reading loss president
Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. Richard Darman
reading fiction
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. Reynolds Price
reading mean essence
Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it? Reza Aslan
reading society literature
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. Raymond Chandler
reading entertainment pleasure
All reading for pleasure is entertainment.
reading character guy
The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.
reading people library
More people should use their library. Regis Philbin
reading librarian school-library
What can I say? Librarians rule.
reading age stories
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading. Rebecca Solnit
reading aliens cases
In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME. Rick Yancey
reading feels comfortable
If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in. Rick Warren
reading live-your-life fortune-cookie
What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? "Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life. Veronica Roth
reading huge
Reading is such a huge part of my life.
reading stuff interest
I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them. Vikram Seth
reading reform three
The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own Robert Green Ingersoll
reading may riding
What is the moral? Who rides may read. Rudyard Kipling
reading book exercise
Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. Studs Terkel