Wole Soyinka’s ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’ is a play I go back to and I read often.
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their lips when they’re reading to themselves.
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
I have always loved story – I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author’s work.
I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can’t do normal work. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.
If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
You can’t judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories out there, true or not true. I say get to know me first before you judge me.
I will say that a lot of art, some of the best art, has very powerful and meaningful messages behind it, and the more you read the stuff on the walls, the more you learn the artist’s intention, and you have a totally new point of view of what it’s about.
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I’m all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
After about the age of 13, I was a romance addict. Still am, though I read just about every other genre as well. The only thing I really shy away from is political thrillers.
I read that a lot of people think I’m gay. I don’t care. My boyfriend and I are not really phased by what people say.
How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because I hate to lose more than I like to win; I experience negative emotions far greater than positive ones.
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It’s a very easy, lovely life.
I read ‘The Crystal Cave’ book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.
What’s always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.
Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn’t read. He was illiterate.
I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it’s like, she didn’t care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.
I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.
What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I’m stuck in a car, and I don’t have my phone, I’m like, ‘What am I doing?’ Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.
This new movie, ‘Full Moon in Blue Water,’ I loved the idea of working with Gene Hackman, who is a great actor, but when I read the script, I threw it right into the trash can, because I didn’t like this woman. She was just a doormat.
If you play the video game, you become more interested and you want to know more about it. You want to read as much about it as you can, see it live and watch as many games as you can. If you’re the type who wants to be as involved as you can in the sport, you’re probably going to want to play ‘Madden NFL.’
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I’m a work in progress.
You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.
Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
Recently, our cable went out. Without the TV, children are forced to draw and read; grown-ups are forced to talk to their wives. I call it a psychic pacifier: It washes over you. It helps you avoid reality.
It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud – it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
I’ve read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
I’m aware of ‘Twilight,’ but I’ve never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold – why do a vampire story about abstinence?
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It’s one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither “good” nor “bad.” They don’t hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.
There are 50 new tabloids every year, and I’m in them, and I read them, and I do stupid things.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.
I read part of it all the way through.
What people think of me doesn’t affect me. As bizarre as it sounds, I don’t have a Google alert on my phone; I don’t read newspapers, and I don’t watch television. If something important happens, I will get to know about it.
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn’t easy. And, you know, you don’t end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.
I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.
I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.
Yes, I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today’s events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.
I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.
My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord.
