Quotes of: Read Keyword

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

Ragnarok

When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

The Reengineers

[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same words, but in their heads, they’re imagining a hundred different things.

Rework

Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands

The Shadow Cats

A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.

The Savage Detectives

How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!

Spiritual Depression

Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.

The Savage Detectives

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

Salem Falls

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

Slammerkin

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

Metaphysical Horror

At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.

Madam, Will You Talk?

Read positive books; see positive things and surround yourself with positive thinkers; life will be full with positivity.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was the important thing.

Narcopolis

Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.

Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading

Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.

One Wife's Solution: Awakening

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

One for the Books

The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.

The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems Of R.M. Engelhardt 1989-2006

It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Language in Thought and Action

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

Looking for Alaska

One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS