Reading Quotes
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.
There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.
The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.
If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.
I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.
How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?
Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.
I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.
My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'
Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.
Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.
I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second.
If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there.
Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!
As I've gotten older there's just more awareness around what is good for my body internally, externally, physically. It's all about reading labels and being aware and conscious of what goes in.
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.