Reading Quotes
Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.
I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.
A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.
It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.
Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.
The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together where both the kid and the parent learn.
My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two without a run or a bike ride or something, I start to get kind of itchy and antsy.
Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.
I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.
I read books when I have time. I probably spend a third of the time watching TV, and the rest of it is reading, but I read.
Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a book... absolute heaven.
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.
I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.
As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by a conversation or a letter, mean the world.
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.
I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.
Being as restless as I am by nature, I couldn't simply just be on set, wait for my turn to rehearse for the week. And I kept reading, but it wasn't enough for me.
I think going back to school, studying as much as you can, especially literature and close reading some of the most beautiful works. You can always apply that to acting.
