Top reading Quotes Collection
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Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.Collection: Reading
I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.Collection: Reading
If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.Collection: Reading
You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend in junior high-one whose revelations thrilled and terrified you, and whose raw, hard-earned wisdom remade the way you saw the world. It evokes the genius of Angela Pneumans canonical progenitors: Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy. Lay It on My Heart is a gorgeous, riveting, and unforgettable book.Collection: Reading
In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.Collection: Reading
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.Collection: Reading
Difference is always the biggest challenge for humans. That's why we do enjoy reading or watching movies or watching TV. It's a personal challenge to get close to people that we never get close to.Collection: Reading
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.Collection: Reading
The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.Collection: Reading
From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to hear the story but to understand how the author got the story on the page.Collection: Reading
I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.Collection: Reading
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living, most of the time. But this not knowing is precisely what I want to preserve. As readers, the closest way we can engage with a literary work is to protect its indeterminacy; to return ourselves and it to a place that precludes complete recognition. Really, when I’m reading, all I want is to stand amazed in front of an unknown object at odds with the world.Collection: Reading
Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.Collection: Reading
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘Is this a potential friend for me?’ but ‘Is this character alive?'Collection: Reading
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.Collection: Reading
Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.Collection: Reading
Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr.Collection: Reading
Reading is good, action is better.Collection: Reading
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.Collection: Reading
Good reading makes for damn hard writing.Collection: Reading
Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.Collection: Reading
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.Collection: Reading
I'm always surprised reading my old journals. There's this idea that life is hard now, but then I'll reach that moment where it'll change. But there's no summit. It's a constant climb.Collection: Reading
It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank. The only reason I am here and not in prison is because of that woman. I was a loser, but she showed me the power of reading.Collection: Reading
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.Collection: Reading
It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.Collection: Reading
People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change.Collection: Reading
I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are.Collection: Reading
Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.Collection: Reading
But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about... The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.Collection: Reading
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.Collection: Reading
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.Collection: Reading
I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn't about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to.Collection: Reading
For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!Collection: Reading
When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.Collection: Reading
Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down!Collection: Reading
A library should be like a pair of open arms.Collection: Reading
If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.Collection: Reading
It's a new day: Full of promise and love. The only thing that can take away that great feeling is - reading the news or speaking to people.Collection: Reading
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.Collection: Reading
Reading for writers is like training for athletes.Collection: Reading
What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.Collection: Reading
I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right wayCollection: Reading
If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.Collection: Reading
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.Collection: Reading
I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.Collection: Reading
Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.Collection: Reading
Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.Collection: Reading
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetryCollection: Reading
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.Collection: Reading