Reading Quotes - Page 38

• One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how to do it is by doing it. You can't write by reading a book about it. The only way to learn how to write a book is to sit down and try to write a book

  David McCullough

  Art, Book, Writing

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• It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

  Douglas Crockford

  Writing, Style, Matter

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.95, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Wish, Action, Live Love

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Art, Book, Indispensable

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• The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it.

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Needs, Looks

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• People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being. I remember reading some Adrienne Rich quote where she talks about how important it was just to watch bubbles rise in a glass.

  Karen Russell

  Dream, Glasses, People

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.

  Alonso Duralde

  Kids, Ideas, House

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information would come up.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Latin, Book, America

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

  Anne Fletcher

  People, Pops, Stuck

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep the tone and your attitude over the course of a year or however long it takes.But when I'm writing short stories, which I will be doing shortly, I can read anything I like.

  T.C. Boyle

  Attitude, Writing, Voice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So depending on the day, my schedule is different. But, generally speaking, I get up in the morning, I do a 30 to 45 minute prescheduling of tweets and just seeing if there's anything urgent - do-or-die emails or server outages, stuff like that. Then after that I go to the gym, where I do all my long-form reading - so Instapaper, and all the Kindle books. I go through an embarrassing amount of books per week.

  Maria Popova

  Morning, Book, Long

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• Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Thinking, Make You Think

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Real, Lying, Writing

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.

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• When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

  Edwidge Danticat

  Believe, People, Done

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. June 2010.

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• With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances vary, but the formula is the same. They're having problems reading, having problems grasping some of the things that are being taught to them.

  Malik Yusef

  Kids, Organization, Littles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

  Umberto Eco

  Morning, Paper, Consumers

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.

  James D'arcy

  Real, War, Fire

  "‘Spotlight’s Brian d’Arcy James On Journalism Versus Acting & Playing A Nerd – Q&A". Interview with Jeremy Gerard, deadline.com. November 3, 2015.

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• I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.

  Victoria Chang

  Book, Reader

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.

  Victoria Chang

  Book, Thinking, Brain

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

  Alison Pill

  Mind, Novel, Active

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can have enough comprehension, which means the person writing it would've had to have a sense of a someday-audience.

  Cris Mazza

  Real, Writing, Mean

  "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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• It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad one. I try to remember that when reading someone else's work.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whether I'm at the point of tears all the time because I use my eyes so much that they're strained and on the verge of tears anyway.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Beautiful, Eye, Tears

  Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

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• In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.

  Ben Lerner

  Art, Offering, Sky

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Support your public library! It is a treasure and a legacy that will provide entertainment, information, a sense of community, and real continuity from one generation to the next, and the next after that. So long as we keep reading, and reading to our children, there will be hope for our shared cultural heritage and the future of our world.

  John Lescroart

  Children, Real, Our World

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