An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
~By Hudson Stuck ~
I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.
~By Suzanne Somers ~
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.
~By E. P. Thompson ~
They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.
~By Katie Couric ~
Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.
~By Corbin Bleu ~
The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
~By Vince Vaughn ~
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.
~By Boris Becker ~
I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
~By Chuck Jones ~
There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
~By Ron Chernow ~
Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.
~By Rebecca Loos ~
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
~By Thomas Perry ~
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
~By Jane Smiley ~
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
~By Russell Banks ~
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
~By Angela Carter ~
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 ~
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
~By John W. Foster ~
I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.
~By Paul Mazursky ~
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
~By John Barton ~
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
~By Gilbert Murray ~
Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
~By Mark Haddon ~
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
~By Ernest Istook ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.
~By John Zorn ~
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
~By Daniel Pinkwater ~
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
~By Bill Watterson ~
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
~By Oscar Levant ~
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.
~By C. S. Forester ~
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
~By Rene Descartes ~
Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
~By Oliver Reed ~
I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.
~By Jesse Eisenberg ~
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
~By Rita Dove ~
Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
~By Richard Hughes ~
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
~By Robert Byrne ~
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
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 ~
I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
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 can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
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 ~
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~By Edith Wharton ~
When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.
~By Kurt Russell ~
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.
~By Zoltan Kodaly ~
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.
~By Ryan White ~
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 ~
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
~By Mark Haddon ~
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 ~
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. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.
~By Eric Holder ~
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
~By Frederik Pohl ~
I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.
~By Kim Smith ~
We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want to buy a book or a ticket for a movie that's reviewed on the site, you can do that without leaving our site.
~By Jay Chiat ~
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
~By William Godwin ~
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
~By Alice James ~
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
~By Vera Brittain ~
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
~By Octavia Butler ~
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 ~
I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.
~By Josh Holloway ~
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.
~By Pete Fountain ~
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.
~By David Antin ~
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 ~
Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.
~By Douglas Dunn ~
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 ~
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
~By Henry Miller ~
I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.
~By Jonathan Davis ~
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
~By Bruce Schneier ~
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
~By William Safire ~
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
~By Moses Hadas ~
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
~By Tim Vine ~
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
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.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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 ~
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
~By David Brainerd ~
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
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 ~
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
~By Bob Ney ~
Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.
~By Jay Hernandez ~
We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.
~By William Brewster ~
And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
~By Jami Gertz ~
The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper.
~By John Hull ~
I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
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