Reading Quotes

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem.

reading is the soul's salvation

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.

Was a fast easy reading, Good to take your mind off of anything serious for a while

Reading LOVE JUNKIE is like watching a sleepwalker taking a stroll on a freeway. All you can do is pray. Gorgeously written, piercingly honest.

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

I'm always reading, and you learn a lot by reading. When I was twenty-five, I read a lot, but didn't have much reading behind me.

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, what if? All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood.

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still.

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.

In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

I actually really do meditation and then I spend my morning reading.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about.

I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.

I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

I was working in a family business-the fur business - and I hated it. I was reading the New York Times want ads, and I saw a photographer's assistant job in Vogue. Things went from there.

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.

To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media.