Reading Quotes
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Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.
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I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
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I really like reading about how families work together.
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!
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It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.
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I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.
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Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.
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I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.
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One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.
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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.'
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[Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All they do is reassure people of their basic opinions, and then they can continue to act like they've always acted. I'd say it's time to move on to something else, but I don't know what it would be.
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I'm always reading and looking around for the next thing.
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.
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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.
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I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
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My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading.
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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
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It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading interviews from giantly, massively famous actors, but you don't just get offered parts, all the time. You actually have to work to get them.
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Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.
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When you're reading, like, a character's thoughts, or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me, that's what the whole point of fiction is.
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There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive.
