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Reading Quotes
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
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"The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden."
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"I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain."
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"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
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"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."
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"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
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"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it."
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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
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"Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay."
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"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."
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"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else."
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"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
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"I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready."
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"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard."
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"In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants."
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"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55."
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"That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before."
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"I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions."
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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
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"Kindle, isn't it? the waitress asked. "I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I'm reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult's books. "Oh, probably not all of them, Wesley said. "Huh? Why not? "She's probably got another one done already. That's all I meant. "And James Patterson's probably written one since he got up this morning! she said, and went off chortling."
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"I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities."
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"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."
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"Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread."
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"The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable."
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"Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process."
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
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"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."
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"I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why."
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"I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself."
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"We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between."
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"When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write."
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"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
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