Reading Quotes
Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it.
Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.
So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!
No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
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.
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.
I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.
J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and dramatists alike.
A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.
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.
I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.
It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpful
One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication.
'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.
Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.
Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.