Reading Quotes
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I start my day by trying to be healthy and exercising and thinking about and reading about the challenges. I live the mission that way.
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I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents always told us great stories that often had magical elements and roots within Mexican folklore. Also, I remember my father reading a book to me, when I was very young, about the lives of saints. Those were crazy scary stories! Maybe he was trying to scare me into being a good person. In the end, magical realism offers me untethered freedom to explore human frailty and the way we clumsily cobble together our lives on this strange planet.
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Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?
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There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
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Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
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There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.
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I'm very troubled when editors oblige their film critics to read the novel before they see the film. Reading the book right before you see the film will almost certainly ruin the film for you.
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Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.
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Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.
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In the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he uttered in a voice full of sorrow: "Goodness, how sad is our Russia!"
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Reading about myself on Perez Hilton was kind of the weirdest thing ever.
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Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
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What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to 'pay homage to the transitive' and enjoy 'a becoming in which one never becomes.' Reading The Argonauts made me happier and freer.
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Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.
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My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.
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When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading.
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Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.
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It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.
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I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing 'Beth.' He actually talked about zombies.
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Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.
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I never stopped reading.
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The 'Fortune' I came to work for on Jan. 25, 1954, was a monthly, with pages significantly larger than what you're reading; 'art' covers that did not relate to stories inside; and a newsstand price of $1.25.
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I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
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One must either stop reading the Bible altogether, or else leave off spending one's whole time in just doing easy pleasant things one likes to do.
