In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
~By George P. Baker ~
Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.
~By John Goodman ~
I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.
~By John Cale ~
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
~By Rene Descartes ~
When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.
~By Guy Picciotto ~
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
~By Mason Cooley ~
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
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.
~By Susie Bright ~
I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.
~By Robert Huber ~
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
~By Frank Crane ~
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.
~By Anatole Broyard ~
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
~By Luciano Pavarotti ~
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!
~By Robert Creeley ~
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.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
~By Angelina Grimke ~
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
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.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
What is reading, but silent conversation.
~By Charles Lamb ~
I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?
~By Adam Sandler ~
I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.
~By Ron Silver ~
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
~By Rita Dove ~
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
~By Ezra Pound ~
And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them.
~By Trishelle Cannatella ~
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
~By Stephane Mallarme ~
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
~By Mick Jagger ~
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
~By Syd Barrett ~
I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.
~By Eric Holder ~
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
~By Thom Gunn ~
While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
~By William Styron ~
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
~By Elizabeth Drew ~
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
~By Serge Schmemann ~
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading.
~By Jason Mewes ~
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
~By Stendhal ~
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.
~By Victor Garber ~
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
~By Bill Murray ~
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
~By John Ruskin ~
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.
~By Chester Brown ~
I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.
~By Norah Jones ~
From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
~By Mary C. Jones ~
In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.
~By Leo Durocher ~
I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.
~By Jonny Greenwood ~
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~By Edith Wharton ~
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.
~By Edward Witten ~
I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.
~By Jhumpa Lahiri ~
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
~By George Byron ~
I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
~By Elias Hicks ~
We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.
~By William Brewster ~
I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
~By Harold Ramis ~
All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.
~By Harvey Milk ~
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.
~By James Laughlin ~
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
~By Sarah Orne Jewett ~
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
~By Roger Ascham ~
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.
~By John Sladek ~
There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
~By Robert Benchley ~
I recommend the art of slow reading.
~By Amos Oz ~
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
~By Kate DiCamillo ~
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
~By Thomas a Kempis ~
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
~By Paul Nurse ~
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
~By Will Rogers ~
Methamphetamine is a highly dangerous drug that is wreaking havoc on families and communities throughout this country. The drug's use is spreading across the United States.
~By Rick Larsen ~
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
~By George Washington Carver ~
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
~By Robert Morgan ~
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
~By Jane Smiley ~
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
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.
~By Nicholson Baker ~
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.
~By Brian May ~
To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
~By Horace Mann ~
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
~By Russell Banks ~
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
~By Ramakrishna ~
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.
~By Ryan White ~
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.
~By John M. Ford ~
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