Quotes of: Readings Keyword

Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature in English as deep and broad as you can. In workshops, writers are often told to read what is being written now, but if that is all you rea...

Theodora Goss

Reading is power. Reading is life.

Karin Slaughter

I was twelve years old when I started reading 'Vogue.'

Brad Goreski

Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on by the discrediting of objectivity is especially relevant to understanding the poem, because the problem of knowledge...

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

219Take up and read, take up and read.

St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo

Take up and read, take up and read.

St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

Inkdeath

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

What do we mean when we say our school 'values' reading?

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you

The Shaman And The Droll

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.

Why Read the Classics?

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

Story Musgrave

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.

Mary MacLane

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

Rick Riordan

She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

May Sinclair

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

Norman Finkelstein

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Angela Carter

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

Jon Scieszka