People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.
1484Hi Goodreads. My first day. I read all of the time but I must promote my own 2 books - Vulnerabilia and Legacy. VULNERABILIA
I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.
While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
When I was a kid, I'd read about celebrities who didn't want to talk to their fans after a show. I told myself, 'That's terrible, and I would never do that.'
The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth.
----------------------------- I remembered when it goes felt before. Laid to tell were almost give up. Love cares upon reach momentum reading.
But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading when I'm old and boring.
Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.
I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting.
