I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.
You read a hundred military manuals you won't find the word kill they trick you into killing.
The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.
Her concept of paradise was something more immediate: a book and a blanket beneath a tree, where she might read in peace.
I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world.
Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image also. We have an emotional connection to the character.
When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.
Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.
A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.
We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.
Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Read it over. Again. Let those words resonate in your mind.
I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages.
When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
Since a leader cannot rise above his thinking, he must assault his limiting beliefs daily thru reading, listening & associating.
My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
