Quotes About Reading

My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and critical analysis that we can apply to the rest of our lives.

I believe my strengths are my pace and reading of the game.

When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.

I get a little stressed even sometimes knowing all the things I want to read, I won't have enough time in this lifetime. The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

Two fundamental rules in the bedroom: one is you do not work in the bedroom. You should not have a workstation, laptop, or business papers around, because as soon as you look at that, you're stressed. I love having a sitting area where you can read a book, but that's it. The other is no clutter.

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.

I love my job, but it can be a little stressful at times. And reading has become a really healthy escape.

Network cable reads are always kind of stressful because it's the first time everyone's read through it out loud.

It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.

It's so important to read a book before bed and do some weird stretching.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the genre again. Since then, I've been on a fairly strict horror diet.

While the books I read as a child lacked diversity in the strict sense, they didn't lack values. Reading, I didn't see me externally, but I felt me - my humanity.

What gets lost is that half of poker is reading people. When you're reading well and you're making counterintuitive plays, a strictly math player will get scared and start making fewer moves, and then the person is even easier to read.

Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

My dad taught me to read by reading comic strips in the Saturday paper and Archie comics.

It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test strips something away from the book.

People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.

The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.