“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
Tag Archives: Reading
Reading ~ 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
Okay ….
reading writing posting blogging walking eating not nesesarily in that order
Smarter People ~ Will Rogers
A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people. ~ Will Rogers
A Pondering Moment
sit back relax with a book and try to put the heat and the high humidity behind you
Grace ~ Pablo Neruda
“He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.” ~ Pablo Neruda, Senator of Chile Born: July 12, 1904 – Died: September 23, 1973
Easy Reading ~ Maya Angelou
Read Everything ~ William Faulkner
“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, Born: […]
My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever interrupt me. ~ Anne Tyler
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky
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
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by. ~ Jeannette Walls
Cup of Coffee ~ Anthony Trollope
Quote Master
Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries. ~ Meg Cabot
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
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning prayer. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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 […]
The Unread Story… ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Author – Born: October 21, 1929
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Sir Richard Steele
Books – Arnold Lobel
Books to the ceiling. Books to the sky. My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time read them. ~Arnold Lobel
Learn as much by writing as by reading. ~ Lord Acton
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
“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
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” ~ Franz Kafka
I Read ~Anne Tyler
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
Book Hangover – This Can Be A Good Thing
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…
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On Reading ~ Haruki Murakami
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Jonathan Franzen Quote On Reading
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Robertson Davies
Born: August 28, 1913 – Died: December 2, 1995 Canadian novelist, journalist, playwright, professor and critic.
Don’t Finish Crappy Books – Chris Brogan
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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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Library Quote By Lemony Snicket
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T.S. Eliot On Libraries
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Reading Quote By William Nicholson
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Picture Quotes
Tsunduko
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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
Books And Reading
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed. – Lily Tomlin Quote Source: Dumb.com
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
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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.
The book to read ….
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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
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
