Reading Quotes
Remember, when we're lost in a story, we're not passively reading about something that's happening to someone else.
In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental!
Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.
Story of civilization starts with reading, and story of creativity starts with writing
Sometimes when you read, it’s like certain sentences strike home and knock you flat. It’s as if they say everything you have tried to say, or tried to do, or everything you are.
Quiet, � she hissed at me, her voice shockingly aggressive for such a small person. “Otherwise, I’ll shut you up myself.
Of course they were eaten, � he retorted, his eyes flashing in cold humour. “Trolls generally aren’t exactly renowned for being vegetarians.
It’s tough, but if you want to survive, sometimes you have to do the seemingly impossible.
Reading exposes is to the experiences and minds of others, makes us challenge our own provinciality, deepens and widens who we are and what we can become.
I can’t get past one or two pages at a time.’ ‘That’s how it’s supposed to be read. Sipped like a soothing cup of tea.
What novels did you read when you were young, dear? I'm convinced it all turns on that.
I like how books let you into another world, but how it's secret. Like, when you read, the world you see is different from the one someone else sees when they read the same words. It's just yours.
What she really felt like doing was reading. Escaping into the Enchanted Wood, up the Faraway Tree, or with the Famous Five into Smuggler's Top.
You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.
Audition requires different neurological processes than vision, or smell. And I would suggest that we hear more than we see while we are reading.
I look upon fine phrases as a lover. - John Keats
I’ve lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material.
Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken.
A good story invites us into someone else's world where we learn, discover commonalities, and leave with compassion and understanding.
Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.
The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes.
A good book should make you think at the end, not just give a solution to the problem at the end.
Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet.
Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.
Get a good book, get few bottles of water or few cups of tea/coffee or Chocolate milk and start reading.
And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously leave the novel tingling in our ears.
What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?
There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.
Love is quite like reading, I expect. Once you know how, you can't ever imagine not doing it.
I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could fee your whole body light up from within.
Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.
You know what it's like to *lose* yourself in a story. We have brother and sister *souls*.
What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home.
A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential