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Reading Quotes
"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
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"I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed."
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"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web."
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"It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words."
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"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining."
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"Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?"
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"I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself."
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"I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child."
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"The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates."
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"The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points."
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"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."
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"Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it."
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"A finished product is one that has already seen its better days."
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"These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything."
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"When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us."
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"The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up."
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"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."
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"I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury."
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"But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube."
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"I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it."
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"In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced."
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"The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are."
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"For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone."
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"I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems."
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"Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading."
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"We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting."
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"All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom."
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"If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything."
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"I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"The ending of a book is, in my experience, both the best and worst part to read. For the ending will often determine whether you love or hate the book.Both emotions lead to disappointment. If the ending was good, and the book was worth your time, then you are left annoyed and depressed because there is no more book to read. However, if the ending was bad, then it's too late to stop reading. You're left annoyed and depressed because you wasted so much time on a book with a bad ending.Therefore, reading is obviously worthless, and you should go spend your time on other, more valuable pursuits."
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"Whatever you're ready for is ready for you."
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"One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer."
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"Reading opens up other pockets of the mind."
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"Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately."
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"Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct."
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"Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery."
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