Re Reading Quotes

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

As you go down the rabbit hole of reading into our history, you realize that there are so many things that history books didn't teach us about ourselves.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.

I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).

Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

There are strong people who aren't able to climb. It's about reading the rock, knowing how to position your body and having the tenacity to not let go.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.

Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.

There is absolutely no way to increase your income quicker than reading 30 minutes a day

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

Sometimes, when you look back, you can point to a time when your world shifts and heads in another direction. In lace reading this is called the “still point.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk louder, then!"

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.

As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.