R Quotes
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“Reading poetry encourages readers to explore vocabulary, understand metaphors and symbolism, and appreciate the nuances of language.”
Source: Simple Essays: Unlocking the Power of Concise Expression
“Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.”
“Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.”
Source: How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.”
“Reading poetry on the page is nice, Will. But it’s not all it could be. Reading it aloud—or hearing it read—gives it another dimension. It’s as though vocalizing the words completes the poem.”
Source: Adjustments
“Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.”
“Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.”
Source: The Recognitions
“Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That's part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen.”
“Reading Rayya’s journals today, and comparing her secret pain with the mighty persona she presented in public, I can see that she did not wish to admit powerlessness to anyone—not even to the God of her own understanding, whoever and whatever that may have been. She didn’t want anyone knowing her “business,” she wasn’t making time for any spiritual practices, and she definitely didn’t want anyone telling her she shouldn’t be drinking. There was no “life on life’s terms” happening here. The terms were all Rayya’s. And since Rayya was the biggest, toughest, smartest, coolest, most badass bitch around here, her terms were always some extremely convincing version of “I got this.” But she didn’t got it, was the problem. And instead of asking for direction from a higher power, she just kept asking herself.”
Source: All the Way to the River
“Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.”
“Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.”
“Reading refreshes as well as renews the mind.”
“Reading relaxes me.”
Source: Moon Man
“Reading renews the mind.”
“Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.”
Source: Only Love Can Break Your Heart
“Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn't have to concentrate at all. You could space out for a good ten minutes, then come back and still figure out what was going on.”
Source: The Last Dog on Earth
“Reading Rilke's quote above, it is clear his work will forever touch the delicate nerves of my sensitivity, unbinding them from places in which they have been hiding. I don't need to know all the answers anymore. My understanding of things unknown is inherent to who I am and allows me to walk up the stairway of life unencumbered by walls of uncertainty. While this esoteric sensibility does not provide instructions for the day to day operations of living, it allows a comfortable understanding that “home” will be attainable in due time. Remaining patient during this process is my life lesson and one I have been asked to embrace fully. It is up to me to let go and allow.”
“Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game.”
“Reading seems to be easier to defend than writing. Writing is a far larger act of presumption. Sensing this, we seek to shore up the act of writing with false defenses, like the dubious idea that one could ever be absolutely “correct” when it comes to representing fictional human behavior. I understand the desire—I have it myself—but what I don’t get is how anyone can possibly hope to achieve it. What does it mean, after all, to say “A Bengali woman would never say that!” or “A gay man would never feel that!” or “A black woman would never do that!”? How can such things possibly be claimed absolutely, unless we already have some form of fixed caricature in our minds? (It is to be noted that the argument “A white man would never say that!” is rarely heard and is almost structurally unimaginable. Why? Because to be such a self is to be afforded all possible human potentialities, not only a circumscribed few.)”
“Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a reflection of yourself unable to see in. An unflattering image of yourself blind.”
“Reading shapes a person. The landscape of books is more real, in some ways, than the one outside the window. It isn't experienced at a remove; it is internal, vital.”
Source: Homecoming
“Reading, she says, is for the underemployed.”
Source: We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
“reading should be your dream your dream is your destiny...”
“Reading should never be a chore or a punishment.”
“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.”
“Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.”
Source: Stepping Westward
“Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked" -Davis Pritchett”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.”
“Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.”
“Reading sparks writing.”
“Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.”
“Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.”
“Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.”
Source: THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)
“Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.”
“Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.”
Source: Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative problem-solving
“Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.”
“Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.”
Source: On Writing
“Reading takes you to meet new people in new places.”
Source: Tooth Tales from Around the World
“Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.”
“Reading that book is like looking at the final EKG results of a man who died a long, long time ago. Each word reads like the rapid peaks and falls of his arrhythmic imagination; each sentence steering him toward the stroke of genius that will eventually cause his mind to flatline.”
Source: Heaven and Hurricanes
“Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.”
“Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.”
“Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny.”
“Reading the bible is like dumpster diving. You sift through the garbage hoping to find anything of value.”
“Reading the Bible isn’t about confirming our ideas and experiences and going away satisfied. It’s about being challenged, called into question. Part of the point of the Gospel stories is to upset our habits, to set before us something utterly different from our world, to push us into thinking about something absolutely new. We aren’t the judges of Scripture; it judges us. Its task is to astonish us; it doesn’t say to us what we want to hear, but says to us what must be said if we are to hear and respond to the truth of the gospel.”
“Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off against each other and see who won over the long haul. Faulkner or Henry Green? I reckon the surprise champ was P.G. Wodehouse, as elegant and resourceful a prose stylist as anyone held up for our inspection here...he has turned out to be as enduring as anyone apart from Orwell. Jokes, you see. People do like jokes.
(Hornby's thoughts after reading "Enemies of Promise" by Cyril Connolly)”
Source: The Polysyllabic Spree
“Reading, the cheapest adventure money can buy...”
“Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.”