Quotes of: Readings Keyword

My brakes sound like my horn, and my car’s bumper is bumpy enough to be brail. My ideal reader would be a speed-reading blind politician I didn’t vote for.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The last time I saw love was in my imagination while reading a book on Thomas Jefferson. Isn’t the Constitution of the United States so romantic?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Words are all we’ve got. Besides, of course, actions. But you can’t print out and read actions. Actions also don’t carry ideas with the same ease as words.

This Book Has No Title

I want to read every book that’s written hear every song that was sung I want to gaze at every cloud and hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue.

A touch, a tear, a tempest

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

Ten Things I Love About You

If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter...

Unknown

But at other times, I sit here reading in the afternoon, a myrtle in my buttonhole, and there are such beautiful passages in the book that I think I have become beautiful myself.

Varieties of Disturbance

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

Violet Eyes

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

the moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.

Where the Wild Rose Blooms

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

You learned this,” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.” “Er…yes?” He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more.

The Way of Kings

The book wasn’t half bad. But only because I only read half of it.

Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

Women

I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...

Wintergirls

Art thou so deeply read in nature and her large philosophy, and I am yet to teach thee that deadliest hellebore or the vomit of a toad are qualified poison to the malice of a woman?

The Worm Ouroboros

My prayer as you read this book is that you will find comfort for the disappointment of unanswered prayer, but also courage to continue on the epic journey that prayer is.

When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer

Word of advice for any young man that might want to take out Malia or Sasha Obama - Their father can order an assassination, don't piss him off.

Write like no one is reading

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I wonder if it really counts as being alone, since I am covered in millions of other living organisms.

Write like no one is reading

How do I like to spend my day off? I like to hit up the juice bar, the bookstore, tan, and then flirt with the pharmacy tech at Walmart.

Write like no one is reading