There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.
I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.
I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.
The art of reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a gr...
Only the living can read. This means that when I write, my target market is people of the future. Greetings, people of the moon!
You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself.
Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all. To k...
Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly ever read 'difficult' or 'dark' novels like the ones he wrote. With the years, too, this habit had grown entrenched, and...
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we to...
... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solve...
What happened to the classics?" you may ask. "Don't you believe in reading great literature to children?" Nothing happened to the classics-but something happened to children: their imaginations went to sleep in front of the television set twenty-five...
..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pas...
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people -- people who supposedly want to write -- read books, and if they read them, how little they examine t...
When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If Katri came in, they were quiet and waited for her to leave. The back door would close, and Katri would have gone. “Does your si...
