I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
~By Mary Oliver ~
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
~By Charles Scribner, Jr. ~
If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.
~By Arthur C. Brooks ~
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
~By Robert Byrne ~
It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.
~By Henry Lawson ~
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
~By Thom Gunn ~
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
~By Rita Dove ~
Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.
~By Chris Matthews ~
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 ~
I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
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 ~
When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
~By Lance Loud ~
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.
~By Mary MacLane ~
As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.
~By Chris Cooper ~
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
~By Mark Twain ~
But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.
~By Max Muller ~
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
~By Fredric Jameson ~
Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.
~By John Lawson ~
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
~By Babe Ruth ~
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
~By John Barton ~
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
~By Howard Nemerov ~
My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.
~By Elizabeth Dole ~
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.
~By Sharon Olds ~
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
~By John Locke ~
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
~By William Gaddis ~
I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
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 ~
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
~By Robertson Davies ~
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
~By David Viscott ~
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 ~
I enjoyed reading as a child.
~By Goh C. Tong ~
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 ~
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
~By Larry David ~
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
~By Gary Oldman ~
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!
~By Dwayne Hickman ~
I don't want little kids reading my comics.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
~By Joseph Addison ~
If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
~By Louise Slaughter ~
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 ~
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I recommend the art of slow reading.
~By Amos Oz ~
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.
~By Thomas Harrison ~
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
~By Philip Pullman ~
Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.
~By Douglas Dunn ~
If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.
~By Henry Reed ~
Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
~By John Leguizamo ~
There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
~By Tom Felton ~
If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.
~By Brian P. Cleary ~
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 think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.
~By Sean Astin ~
I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
~By Dean Koontz ~
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 ~
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
~By Kate DiCamillo ~
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
~By Donna Tartt ~
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 ~
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
~By Lynda Barry ~
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
~By Paul Muldoon ~
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
~By Norman Spinrad ~
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
~By Anthony Burgess ~
Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.
~By Holly Valance ~
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
~By James Joyce ~
It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
~By Mary Archer ~
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 ~
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
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 ~
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.
~By William Devane ~
Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
~By Bob Geldof ~
I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.
~By Jimmy Fallon ~
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
~By Robert Quine ~
It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.
~By Christopher Darden ~
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
~By Roberto Bolano ~
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 ~
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 ~
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
~By Elliott Smith ~
I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.
~By Ann Veneman ~
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~By Edith Wharton ~
The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
~By Bobby Orr ~
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