Reading Quotes
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I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
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People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
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The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.
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The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.
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Writing that's native to the web is different in ways that are crucial but subtle enough that you can miss them if you conceive of your audience as reading a printed product.
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I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.
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I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.
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I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it.
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My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.
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Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
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Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.
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I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.
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To be honest, I haven't even seen the film yet. Tobey, if you're reading this, I apologize.
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For 'Boxers & Saints,' I started by reading a couple of articles on the Internet, then writing a really rough outline, then getting more hardcore into the research. I went to a university library once a week for a year, year and a half.
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If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
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A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.
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Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
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I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
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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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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
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Regarding scripts and projects, I've always been open to reading all sorts of genres and never closing myself off to one, because you never know what you might find.
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She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?
