Reading Quotes - Page 40

• First, there was Confucius. Then, the sayings of Chairman Mao. And now the pithy, ironic, and humorous insights of Ai Weiwei. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection, which reflects a well-developed philosophy as well as a keen understanding of the Chinese Communist system. This is China made easy and interesting.

  Jerome A. Cohen

  Philosophy, Humorous, Interesting

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• For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Book, Sunset, Names

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• I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.

  Elise Valmorbida

  Writing, Mind, Trying

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• My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

  Jason Blum

  Want, Scripts, Judgment

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• I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.

  Denise Duhamel

  Believe, Writing, Different

  Interview with Karla Huston, www.smartishpace.com. 2004.

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• Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.

  Molly Antopol

  Writing, What Matters, Years

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• God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.

  George Whitefield

  Book, Writing, People

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.739

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• Seeking - really seeking - is more than just reading a few verses from the Bible in the morning and trying to be a good person that day. Seeking requires me to sacrifice the things I feel compelled to chase so I can be available to notice God’s clear direction. Whatever we chase, like it or not, gains our full attention. Dear Lord, forgive me for all the times I’ve rushed by Your gifts and overlooked Your blessings. Today, I want to pause and really seek You with all I’ve got. I love You, Lord. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Morning, Jesus, Love You

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• Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Speaks Out, Fool, Retreat

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• Every other day I read a book. It takes me two days to finish a book. I like reading because if I'm not doing anything, then I read. If my mom tells me to go take out the trash, I'll go take out the trash, and come back and start reading again.

  Khleo

  Mom, Book, Two

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• You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Spiritual, Advancement, Strive

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• The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder... What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, and to make even worldly people enter into the way of perfection.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Spiritual, Book, People

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• You'll sleep with the lights on after reading Gregg Olsen.

  Allison Brennan

  Sleep, Light

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• Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Literature, Ghost, Speak

  "Built to Last". www.nytimes.com. August 23, 2012.

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• Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values--whether presented on television or in "real life." The child who finds fulfillment in music or reading or cooking or swimming or writing or drawing is not as easily convinced that he needs recognition or power or some "high" to feel worthwhile.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Real, Writing

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Education, Business, Thinking

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• Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Thinking, Mere, Originals

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.492, Oxford University Press

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• The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

  Adrian Tomine

  Pages, Comic, Should

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown up my whole life reading comics and I know every little nuance of the language and all the implications.

  Adrian Tomine

  Love Is, Littles, Nuance

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.

  Andy Richter

  Hate, Magazines, Down And

  Interview with Jonathan R. de la Manzana, Jr., believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I definitely miss that sense of being a disinterested reader who's reading purely for the pleasure of imagining his way into emotional situations and vividly realized scenes in nineteenth-century France or late nineteenth-century Russia.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Writing, Emotional, Russia

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Writing, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have to compare yourself to the best and feel totally inadequate.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Writing, Years, Compare

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Writing, People, Reader

  Interview with The Believer, staging.believermag.com. March, 2007.

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• I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Writing, Giving, Bonus

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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