“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
Tag Archives: Reading
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 Parks, Novelist – Born: December 19, 1954
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…
On Reading ~ Haruki Murakami
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
Jane Austen On Reading
T.S. Eliot On Libraries
Reading Quote By William Nicholson
A book a day keeps reality away
Source: A book a day keeps reality away
Reading Quote
Source: http://wordables.com
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
Joseph Addison Quote
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
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
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 ….
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
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.
Inspiring: Gets Shot in the Face Once…
When I’m 80 Years Old and Sitting… – Alan Rickman
Inspirational Quote 11/19/12
Friday Humor 11/16/12
You Don’t Have To Burn Books To Destroy A Culture,… Ray Bradbury
Inspirational Quote 10/14/12
