Reading Quotes
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In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I read these texts, I understood something about human greatness. What I understood from his writings was: What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being.
Bert Hellinger -
I think 'taste' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
John Updike
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I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.
George R. R. Martin -
I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.
Cynthia Kenyon -
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
Ashwin Sanghi -
People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.
Tony Kushner -
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
Vladimir Nabokov -
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
Armie Hammer
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If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.
Claire Messud -
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Clarence Day -
The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.
Dalai Lama -
The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over your potatoes. You savor it as if it were a find chardonnay. What on Earth does it matter if you stop and repeat a phrase, roll it around on your tongue, dart a few lines ahead and then suddenly come back and reread it? If the phrase is good enough, you are supposed to stop and rejoice in it.
William Murchison -
When you're just reading a note card but when you're just reading a note card and it doesn't even feel real, it's difficult at times. But I have no problem doing interviews. So I have absolutely no problem doing interviews.
Wale -
I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.
David Starkey
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I know that 'The Accident' is not a completely accurate reflection of the reality of the book publishing world, which, like nearly any other business, consists mostly of people sitting in small offices staring at computer screens or reading or trying to stay awake in meetings.
Chris Pavone -
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
Ernest Gaines -
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
Joyce Carol Oates -
I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
Michael Pena -
The act of reading to a child is the most important contribution to the future of our society that adults can make.
Anita Silvey -
It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.
Donald Miller -
I've always loved reading manifestos. Collectively, they represent a triumph of style.
Amor Towles -
I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time!
Jen Selinsky -
I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.
Joanna Coles