Reading

“When you’re reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How doContinue reading “Reading A Novel”

Responsible Decisions

“The place of stillness that you have to go to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world.” ~ Jonathan Franzen

“Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.” `~Siri Hustvedt

January

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

Reading Cartoon

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I heed her advice

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International Community Of Readers

“More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references are a hindrance. This seems obvious. I don’t decry it or criticize it – it’s just a fact.” ~ Tim Parks, Novelist

Looking for a book I’ve been badly wanting to read. Where do I begin?

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Reading Books

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ~ Anna Quindlen

Only Way To Read A Book

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A Writer’s Life

“Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! ButContinue reading “A Writer’s Life”

Pleasure Of Reading

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if any of readers understood my previous post you get an a if you didn’t understand it you will get an a for reading it

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place. ~Anne Tyler

Act Of Reading

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you’re just not conscious of the physical act of reading. ~ Frank Shorter

Reading A Novel

“Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist’s head, and you invest many hours to do so.” ~ Jay McInerney

Materials Of Knowledge

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” ~ John Locke

“Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.” ~Paul Theroux

Good Books

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes

Reading Is The Key

“Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes

Great books help you understand, and they help you understood. ~John Green

She reads books as one would breathe air. To fill up and live. ~Annie Dillard

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~Albert Einstein

The Joy Of Reading Fiction

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or hers imagination. ~ Alice Hoffman

R.I.P Toni Morrison

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ~ Toni Morrison, 88 y/o – Author, Nobel Laureate

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Saturday Afternoon

eating a pear accompanied with a cup of black French Roast coffee while reading emails and blogs

“Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.” ~ George Carlin

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch. ~ Harold E. Varmus

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once. ~ Stephen King

“If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.” ~ Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka, Writer – Born: July 3, 1883 – Died: June 3, 1924

To read a book …..

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. ~ Chinese Saying

Always read with a pen in your hands,… ~ Tim Parks

“Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed … Put a question mark by everything you find suspect. Underline anything you really appreciate. Feel free to write ‘splendid,’ but also, ‘I don’t believe a word of it.’ And even ‘bullshit.’” ~ TimContinue reading “Always read with a pen in your hands,… ~ Tim Parks”

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Sir Richard Steele

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes

Rene Descartes, Philosopher – B. March 31, 1596 – D. February 11, 1650

Confucius Quote

Reading Quote: Maya Angelou

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way around, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. -Maya Angelou

Reading A Book

Carl Sagan Quotation

Time Is Never Wasted ~ Thomas Pynchon

“Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.” – Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.211, Penguin

William Faulkner Quote

“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” – William Faulkner

Reading ~ Judith Butler

“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.” – Judith Butler

“Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.” ~Paul Theroux

Books

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.” ~ Isaac Asimov

Read Books…

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On Reading ~ Haruki Murakami

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Robertson Davies

Born: August 28, 1913 – Died: December 2, 1995 Canadian novelist, journalist, playwright, professor and critic.

Stephen King

Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen King

Saul Bellow On Libraries

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Jane Austen On Reading

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T.S. Eliot On Libraries

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Reading Quote By William Nicholson

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A book a day keeps reality away

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Reading Quote

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J.D. Salinger Quote On Reading A Book

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Reading Quote – Bertrand Russell

There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it. – Bertrand Russell

Libraries – Doris Lessing

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Wednesday Morning Quote

Reading Question

Writing Quote

This Has Happened To Me A Few Times, And It Sucks

Reading

Laying on the couch Spending time going Through the email Reading the notifications Of the people I follow While the TV is watching me What a charming life I live

Paul Theroux Quote

Born: April 10, 1941

Steven Wright Quote

“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.” – Steven Wright http://www.bquot.es/s/1815

Learning

Voltaire Quote

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” – Voltaire http://www.bquot.es/s/1823

Joseph Addison Quote

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison http://www.bquot.es/s/2451

Literature Quote by Paul Auster

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one. -Paul Auster http://en.proverbia.net

Man

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound mind, discourse a clear man. Benjamin Franklin Quote Source: en.proverbia

Funny Quote

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People

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Dictionary

Question

What would you be doing, if wasn’t reading this post?

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The Mind

Reading

You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book. Al Pacino

Thinking

Books

Feeling a lot better than I did last week, and for the next few days will be posting off and on. Below, is a few of the books that I like to read.

Monday Evening

Monday evening. 6:20 pm. While reading and going through the blogs I follow. While I am doing this, NCIS on USA is keeping me company.

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Just another Sunday ….

Just another Sunday Periods of rain since day break Did the online crossword Drinking coffee Read some of the news Watching football on the boob tube Just another Sunday

You know you’ve read a… – paul sweeney

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. – Paul Sweeney

If you would be not forgotten… – Benjamin Franklin

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There Are Two Motives For Reading… – Bertrand Russell

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. –Bertrand Russell