R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.”
“Reading is not a hobby,” she said. “It is a way of life.”
“reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear.”
“Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.”
Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction
“Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.”
Source: Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)
“Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.”
“Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is wise to remember that when we are reading letters never intended for us, any problems of understanding are ours and not theirs.”
“Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.”
“Reading is not life. Reading is creating life in your head. And that can only help you so much in a storm.”
Source: Every Day
“Reading is not like this... read and read without understanding you just want to finish the book... I had such moments but it's the worst decision ever made. The reading should be process in which you go deeper and deeper, you understand it... you like it... you try to be the same character.... you enjoy it and you want more and more... you have more and more curiousity.”
“Reading is not optional.”
Source: Tags
“Reading is not passive. It is only when the reader brings his/her own experiences to the work and breathes life into the author’s words that they consummate the relationship and together bring the story to life.”
Source: Amanda's Room
“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives."
[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]”
“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives”
“Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.”
“Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.”
“Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.”
Source: An Echo in the Bone
“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
“Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.”
“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I have accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
“Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.”
“Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.”
“Reading is only a pretext for our bodies to stick together, like a sculpture, fused in a way that when trying to separate one from other, or the work remains intact or is completely lost”
“Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.”
Source: Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays
“Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.”
Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
“Reading is perhaps the greatest pleasure you will have in life; the one you will think of longest, and repent of least.”
“Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.”
“Reading is probably another way of being in a place.”
“Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.”
“Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.”
“Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).”
Source: The outermost dream: essays and reviews
“Reading is reading - no matter what the material.”
Source: Billy and Me
“Reading is refreshing.”
“Reading is refreshing rest for the mind.”
“Reading is seeing by proxy.”
Source: The Study of Sociology
“Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you’re not there anymore. It’s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.”
“Reading is solitude.”
Source: If on a winter's night a traveler
“Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.”
Source: If on a winter's night a traveler
“Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.”
“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.”
Source: Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon
“Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.”
Source: My Life in Middlemarch
“Reading is still both fundamental and essential. And what, above all, a teacher can communicate to you is what to read and how to read. How to read! For the art of reading is in danger of being lost”
Source: What is This Jewish Heritage?
“Reading is such a huge part of my life.”
“Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.”
“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
Source: On Reading
“Reading is the act of listening and speaking at the same time, with someone you've never met, but love. Even if you hate them, it's a loving thing to do.
You speak someone else's words to yourself, and hear them for the first time.
What you're doing now is listening to me, in the parlor of your mind, but also speaking to yourself, thinking about the parts of me you like or the parts that aren't funny enough. You evaluate, like Mrs. Miller says. You think and wrestle with every word.”
Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue
“Reading is the author's gift from the reader. Writing is the reader's gift from the author.”
“Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.”
“Reading is the basics for all learning.”
“Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!”