Reading Quotes - page 8

I still have a struggle reading [dyslexia] and so I don't read much... Probably the only reason I'm painter is because I couldn't read yet I love to write, but when I write I know what I'm writing, but when I'm reading I can't see it, because it goes from all sides of the page at once. But that's very good for printmaking. (Robert Rauschenberg)
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically. View quote
Geoffrey Rush
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. View quote
Henry James
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source - the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text. View quote
Roland Barthes
We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button reading "positive attitude” protrudes from our hearts, and no finger can coerce positivity into immediate action by a single and painless pressing. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done. View quote
Jimmy Wales
I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated. View quote
Gao Xingjian
We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading. (Ramakrishna)
I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right. View quote
Samuel Johnson
You can never be wise unless you love reading. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. View quote
Antonin Artaud
People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? View quote
Marina Tsvetaeva
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain. View quote
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. View quote
Dylan Thomas
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room. (Steven Wright)
I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation. View quote
Ali Larter
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading. View quote
Yevgeny Zamyatin
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. View quote
Paul Muldoon
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. View quote
Joseph Addison