Quotes About Reading

I'm not much of a cook. I used to keep books in my gas oven - until someone told me it was a fire hazard.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

There were days when I felt low and depressed. But I made sure not to harbor those feelings. To overcome that, I used to take a walk and speak to my bunch of friends. I even read up on mental health apart from some Bengali novels.

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I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

Wat is de duurtijd van een boek in tijden die zich van boeken lijken af te wenden?

There are 70 million books in American libraries, but the one I want to read is always out.

I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The bulk of what I know about human life I've gotten from novels. And I think the thing about novels that make them important to the people who love them is that there's always another perspective.

We biblioholics have different priorities. We've got all our clothes in our suitcase in two minutes flat, and then we spend three hours and fifty-eight minutes deciding which books to bring.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

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The growth of literacy was sparking an awakening – welcome to some, dreadful to others – across the slave-empire of Jamaica. Reading seemed to ignite a hidden store of fuel within an enslaved person.

Czech: ?ekni mi, co ?teš, a já ti ?eknu, kdo jsi. English: Tell me what you read, and I'll tell you who you are. First president of Czechoslovakia.

I recall that one time he told the people to read the poems out loud because the spoken word was the seed of love in the darkness.

Richard It's called reading-top to bottom-left to right-group words together into sentences-take tylenol for any headaches-midol for any cramps.

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.

Tubby flipped through the magazines stacked on

A Yellow Raft on Blue Water. He'd left it opened to page 158. A hard place to stop.

The idea that writerly originality appears from nowhere, or exists as something in isolation, a thing to be guarded and protected from influence, is lunacy. Anyone who doesn't school themselves by deep, wide, and idiosyncratic reading is choosing aesthetic poverty. Such aesthetic cloistering is like protecting your virginity in the belief that it will make you better at sex.

The truth is, a writer's voice is made from other writers' voices. Pieced together, picked and chosen, stumbled into, uninformed: influence seems like an involuntary series of contagions that eventually turns into a sort of vessel, or transportation system. As we acquire a sense of taste, and perhaps a sense of vocation, our reading becomes more directed and targeted, but we are bent and shaped and destined to be changed by the genius of others.

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And all you can do is just read," she said. She raised her voice an screamed, "You just read and read and read!" Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.

He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience.