Reading Quotes - Page 27

• It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any back out (good or bad)? I can't even imagine trying to write without reading. Really, I can hardly write a novel at all if I'm not reading just book after book.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Book, Writing, Trying

  Source: lbc.typepad.com

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• Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet. I started reading English books even though I had very limited vocabulary.

  Li Cunxin

  Book, Vocabulary, Focus

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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• The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Humor

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2012

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• It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was a lot of poetry activity and some of my first readings abroad and trying to relate with people my own age there and what they were discovering and learning had to examine in terms of their backgrounds. Then so many of my friends had family who had either perished in the holocaust or survived in the holocaust. It was very palpable.

  Anne Waldman

  People, Holocaust, Trying

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Meditation is the one thing I do every day - meditate, pray. I do reading in the morning and try to center myself. I play music every day because that is very centering.

  Mason Jennings

  Morning, Play, Meditation

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the conditions and problems that most concern me - anti-colonial theories, Foucault, critical disability studies, prison studies and the like are rarely seen in standard US Law School curricula, where students are still fighting on many campuses to get a single class on race or poverty offered - I developed most of my thinking about these topics through activist reading groups and collaborative writing projects with other activist scholars.

  Dean Spade

  Writing, School, Fighting

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.

  Kate Cary

  Art, Book, Creativity

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research.

  Andrew Saul

  Anxiety, Needs, Research

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.

  David Starkey

  People, Feelings, Needs

  Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com

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• I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

  David Starkey

  Thinking, Needs, Distraction

  Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com

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• For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture.

  Bill Henson

  Glasses, Textbooks, World

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going "It's me! I'm the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!"

  Bill Henson

  Standing Down, Want, Boxes

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I'm particularly interested in this when teaching law students who often resist reading interdisciplinary materials or materials they interpret as too theoretical.

  Dean Spade

  War, Teaching, Law

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are sharing in something that hundreds of millions of people have read with love, and I think that this is worth holding onto. It is not a matter of canonical texts or elitism, which the universities are trying to make us wary about. It is about shared language and metaphor and experience and imagery and that is all good.

  Robert Dessaix

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.

  Angela Davis

  Leader, Police, Black

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I love being home, reading the paper in the morning and having a cup of coffee, doing laundry, going grocery shopping and running daily errands. For me, it's important to have that balance in my life.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Running, Morning, Coffee

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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• When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

  Jose Parla

  Art, Wall, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.

  Peg Kehret

  Book, Writing, Might

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• I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Meaningful, Writing, Order

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It's like reading the book instead of watching the movie.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Book, Inspiration, Different

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• If we're trying to excite young people about reading, we need to be experiencingbookjoy ourselves so that we have references to make. It's important to be able to say, "You know, I read the most wonderful poem the other day. Let me tell you about it."

  Pat Mora

  People, Important, Trying

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.

  Jan Brett

  Children, Book, Looks

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• It wasn't until I started reading the history of religion that I understood that the definition of Christianity has shifted in many different directions over time, and the mainstream view today certainly doesn't have any exclusive ownership of what being a Christian means. Realizing that freed me to use the terminology without needing to be tied down to it.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Christian, Mean, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

  Matt Wagner

  Mom, Mother, Teacher

  Source: about-creativity.com

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• Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Goal, Three

  "How to read a business book". sethgodin.typepad.com. May 21, 2008.

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