Quotes of: Time-reading Keyword

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

The Angel's Game

I don't fear death--I fear dying before I've read Dickens end to end.

All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

An Abundance of Katherines

You’ll be reading the breakfast menu without me before you know it.” Hmm, maybe I don’t want to learn French

Anna and the French Kiss

I'm guessing you're tits deep in a horror novel. Something by Laymon, or Ketchum, or one of those sick fucks you read.

AFTERTASTE: An Extreme Horror Novel

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone.

All the Bright Places

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.

after the quake

Read "The Story of O." Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

How to Make an American Quilt

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book

The Human Script

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

The Imitation of Christ

If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.

The Imitation of Christ

Ugh! She cursed her lack of attention to the [mythology] reading. Who could have known that would be the important class?

The Immortal Game

I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

The Illusion of Separateness

I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.

I Want

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II

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