Reading Quotes
Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.
If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.
When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.
I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.
Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.
That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when I got to third or fourth grade - don't associate reading with fun.
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.
I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.
The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.
I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
