Reading Quotes - Page 10

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.

Libraries are our friends.

‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's homework for her. That's an energy drain. More times than she cares to remember, Nellie Wong, Asian American feminist writer, has been called by white women wanting a list of Asian American women who can give readings or workshops. We are in danger of being reduced to purvey­ors of resource lists.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.

Reading is fundamental - fun to mental.

It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.