Quotes of: Time-reading Keyword

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything’s handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in ...

Daniel Pennac

One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration. I get regular injections for this, and thankfully these seem to have arrested its progress, but it's still very difficult for me to read. That means ...

Billy Graham

I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was ...

James Patterson

To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself a grave disservice if you read around words you don’t know, or worse, merely guess at what they mean without bothering to look them u...

Love

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty...

How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater

Thank you. There were three of us kids, all right together. I’m the oldest, she was the knee-baby, and my brother Henry came last. Funny, I miss her all the time, but I miss her most when I’m reading Austen. We’d been fans since we were in the ...

Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence. Let Scripture be first and most in your hearts and hands and other books be used as subservient to it. While reading ask yourself: 1. Could I spend th...

Richard Baxter

Fuchs: There's something wrong with Blair. He's locked himself in his room and he won't answer the door, so I took one of his notebooks from the lab. MacReady: Yeah? Fuchs: Listen: "It could have imitated a million life-forms on a million planets. It...

The Thing

At night I would return home, set out a lamp before me, and devote myself to reading and writing. Whenever sleep overcame me or I became conscious of weakening, I would turn aside to drink a cup of wine, so that my strength would return to me. Then I...

Love

In reading he found solitude. In reading he could dispel the blare of the world.

Barracuda

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

Diana Gabaldon

I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.

Sasha Pieterse

Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

My Reading Life

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

How Reading Changed My Life

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

Mason Cooley

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

Penn Jillette

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

Ray Bradbury

As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults.

Richard K. Morgan

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

Terry Bradshaw