A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.
I’m a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.
I’m comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk science and real science.
If you enjoy reading something, read it.
I’m always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn’t stop.
In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!
I’m not very good at relaxing. Reading’s the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don’t think there’s a moment of the day when I wouldn’t be if I was left alone.
I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.
I was reading some Raymond Carver. I really liked how he did that ‘slice of life’ thing. Because I’m not much of a reader I end up finding out about these things a long time after other people.
I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.
At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.
There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
Only 20 percent of our longevity is genetically determined. The rest is what we do, how we live our lives and increasingly the molecules that we take. It’s not the loss of our DNA that causes aging, it’s the problems in reading the information, the epigenetic noise.
I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
In a reading, I communicate what I see, what I hear and what I feel. It’s as simple as that.
I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.
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.
It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I’m not working on ‘Harry Potter,’ then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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.
Reading should be a repeat performance.
I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It’s one of those places I’d always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.
I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don’t have a connect with it.
Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric. People knew each other in ‘War and Peace.’ They went to all the same balls. These were societies with tightly wound, woven, social textures.
I’ve always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
I’m just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.
I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.
We’re obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It’s all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I’m very interested in reading different points of view, and certainly different generations than my own that have such a very different world view.
Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
I’ve been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!
I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.
I started reading G. K. Chesterton’s ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’ on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.
And I think it’s because good cons are all based on the victim’s need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha’am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha’am’s essays.
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.
I was reading William Shawcross’s biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.
I don’t have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I’m bullish about the Longhorns.
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
I had a vast interest in ghosts and stuff and cryptozoology and every topic that was not normal… if you’re reading that stuff at 8 or 9 it has a big impact on you.
I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly – write from your gut.
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
If a child wants to read ‘Twilight’ over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged – the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.
I’m a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.
Whatever I learned reading ‘Scientific American,’ nothing can finally compete with your own observations.
We have to put aside the customary historical reading of works of art in order to invite art to respond to certain quite specific pains and dilemmas of our psyches.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing ‘Beth.’ He actually talked about zombies.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug ‘Vanity Fair.’ You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
