R Quotes
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“Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. You can even read while you’re driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible”
Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
“Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.”
“Reading is the inhale, writing is the exhale.”
“Reading is the journey of those who can not take the train”
“Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.”
“Reading is the key to life's hidden treasures, revealing the beauty and complexity of the world around us.”
“Reading is the last act of secular prayer.”
“Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.”
“Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.”
“Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.”
“Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.”
“Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.”
Source: A Reading Diary
“Reading is the quiet rebellion of the mind.”
Source: Tango Secrets: Your Ultimate Guide To Tango Dance & Culture
“Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.”
“Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.”
Source: The Disappearance of Childhood
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities
“reading is the soul's salvation”
“Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.”
“Reading is the sweetest treat and the healthiest pleasure, so feast on those books!”
“Reading is the ultimate meta-skill that can be traded for anything else.”
“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.”
Source: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman
“Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.”
“Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.”
“Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.”
Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”
Source: The Art of Literature
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.”
Source: Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Source: The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.”
“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.”
Source: The Tatler: Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq
“Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse you.”
Source: Mockingbird
“Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.”
Source: The Uncommon Reader
“Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.”
“Reading is very good.”
“Reading is very good. And you can quote me!”
“Reading is where the wild things are.”
“Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest contributions to the work of grieving. It helps us, more generally, to grieve for the limitations of our life, the limitations of the human condition.”
Source: Le Corps De L'oeuvre
“Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions.”
“Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.”
“Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.”
“Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.”
Source: The End of Your Life Book Club
“Reading it, I just kept feeling like... it was a gift... like you'd given me something important.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Reading it in a book does not make it a fact.”
“Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterwork but that it is the American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country’s writers.”
“Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.”
Source: City on Fire
“Reading itself is a deeply strange activity. You’re asking a human brain to tune out nearly all sensory information from the outside world for a long stretch of time in order to focus on a small area of somewhat obscure black markings on a white background, carefully shifting the eyes across those markings in a given direction.”
Source: Eve (Adapted for Young Adults): How the Female Body Shaped Human Evolution
“Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone.”
“Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.”