Reading Quotes - page 95

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. (Joan Didion)
I am just now not reading but devouring Captain Mahan's book and am trying to learn it by heart. It is a first-class book and classical on all points. View quote
Wilhelm II of Germany
The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful. View quote
Taylor Swift
If you listen to my albums, it's like reading my diary. View quote
Taylor Swift
There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there. View quote
Taylor Swift
Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. View quote
Kathy Acker
Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am. View quote
Sasha Grey
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere. View quote
Diana Gabaldon
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading. View quote
Diana Gabaldon
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress. View quote
Kate Atkinson
I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are. (Wynton Marsalis)
I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class. View quote
Witold Gombrowicz
At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure. View quote
Jamaica Kincaid
I remember being a kid and walking this boulevard and reading the names and thinking about what so many other millions of people thought about, which is, you know, who's that? View quote
Paul Rudd
Ultimately the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level. View quote
John Scalzi
And my tears, too, have stained this heirloomed ground, When reading in these treatises some weird Miracle, I turned a leaf and found A white hair fallen from my father's beard. View quote
A. M. Klein
The subject [of Stalin's death] permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation-both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents-and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more. View quote
A. J. Liebling
Give yourself to reading.'... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
I had been reading Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow, which talks about mass incarceration and mass incarceration being the new Jim Crow. But I really believe education is also the new Jim Crow right now because there is so much segregation in education, and there's an excessive system of have and have-nots. So I was first and foremost interested in exploring the school-to-prison pipeline because of how personally it affected some people in my life. View quote
Dominique Morisseau
E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later. View quote
Anne Lamott
People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close. (David Petraeus)
Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
As soon as my teaching duties permitted, I began to read Eusebius and soon made the remarkable discovery that none of the great names who had written books about Constantine had taken the precaution of reading the whole of Eusebius. View quote
Timothy Barnes (classicist)
You don't know what I'm all about / Like killing cops and reading Kerouac. View quote
Blake Schwarzenbach
I had never met a poet in my life before winning the Pulitzer in 1945. Well, that's not strictly true; when I went to Johns Hopkins in 1939, W. H. Auden gave a private reading to a group of special literature students, and I was one. I shook hands with him. As it happened, at that time he was my idol, above all others as a modern poet, and that experience was a very sustaining one. But I could hardly say I "knew” him. View quote
Karl Shapiro