E Reading Quotes

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.

Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

I'm good at reading people.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

We can be bought, but we cant be bored.

I'm vulnerable reading people's comments on Facebook.

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

I finished reading High Output Management by Andrew Grove, which had such valuable insights for leaders that I've been forcing managers at Duolingo to read the book.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip.

I like reading. I just hate school.

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.

I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.

I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

I do some of my best reading while seated in the bathroom.

I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.

I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner.

the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

If you like what you're reading, I probably wrote it.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

When you finish reading a script and you realise that you didn't think of anything else, that you were just focusing on the script and were caught up in the story, then that's when I am amazed.

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.