Reading Quotes
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By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
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I've been involved in animal issues for quite a while, going back 24 years. I started reading up on factory farming and slaughterhouses and animal cruelty, and it didn't make sense for me to be part of it.
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I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
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Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
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There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.
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Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
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When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.
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The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the 'Guys Read' thing.
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Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help.
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
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All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged.
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A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.
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The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.
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The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit.
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All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.
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I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.
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I think Vikings have always been popular, haven't they? I remember being a kid and being in second grade reading a book about this Viking warrior.
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One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
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My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always surprised at the kind of people that come to my readings. That they are such a mix of ages and colors. It looks like people spilling out of an elevator.
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My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we enjoyed reading it.
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More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.
