“I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, “How does it feel being on mainstream media? It’s not often poets get on mainstream media.” I said, “Well I think you’re the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you’re not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high …
Tag Archives: Reading
“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.” ~Joyce Carol Oates
Books
Currently reading Atonement by Ian McEwan, and Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney. Also reading The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, and The Granta Book of Irish Short Story. All are excellent reads.
Reading a Poem
kick back and relax grab a book any book whatever tickles your fancy a good way to pass the time away oh, the joy of reading
The More You Read
“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.” ~ Stephen King
Successful Novel
“A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.” ~ Stephen King
Reading
“I don’t always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.” ~ Alice Munro
Devoted Reader(s)
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My Book is My Home
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Reading A Novel
“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 do …
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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good book good coffee a comfortable place to do it
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! But …
Pleasure Of Reading
okay so addendum
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
Okay ….
reading writing posting blogging walking eating not nesesarily in that order
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.’” ~ Tim …
Continue 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
“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…
PictureQuotes.com
On Reading ~ Haruki Murakami
Wordables.com
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
Wordables . com
Jane Austen On Reading
Wordables
T.S. Eliot On Libraries
Wordables
Reading Quote By William Nicholson
Wordables
A book a day keeps reality away
Source: A book a day keeps reality away
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
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
Reading
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?
Books
Source
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.
The book to read ….
Source
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
Source
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
Blog #2
1. You post it. 2. I read it.
A Pondering Mind 
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