“Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.” WholeStoriesReadingAsksImaginationAbilityCreativeWrittenReaderPagesWhole LifeLife ExperienceWritten WordCreative Imagination Author:Katherine Paterson
“When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'” PeopleFeelsFirstsHumansPersonsBookCharacterGirlReadingActorsRealizingHoursAbilityWhiteEmpathyScriptsAgentsMovieMikeDualityCreepyRight PersonBooks And ReadingGood GirlWrong Person Author:Jennifer Aniston
“I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.” AgeRememberYoungReadingParentAbilityLevelsTaughtSpeedImpressedComprehensionCreepy Author:J. J. Abrams
“Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.” WorldMeanWholeMomentsEyeReadingVoiceImaginationAbilitySpaceCompanyKeysEarsMereSaintWhole WorldAll TimeFancyFinestSageTime And SpaceSweetestWisestWittiest Book:Democracy and other Addresses Source: Democracy and other Addresses
“Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.” ReadingForceSidesAbilityStudySuccessfulJudgingInvestingTapePulling Book:Studies in Tape Reading Source: Studies in Tape Reading
“The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.” MayReasonRealityTruthRunningLyingOrderReadingAbilityFictionHonestyTruth IsAngerStrangerRationalThreadIrrationalBelievableStranger Than Fiction Book:Clearing the ground Source: Clearing the ground
“There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.” HeartArtReadingAbilityCuttingReadyDoctorsBaseballPressureTablesNo Pressure Author:Charlie Manuel
“Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave.” PeopleIfsWorldWayFeelsPersonsDifferentReadingAbilityEnemyBloodMetsLonelyBraveFleshShouldersRelateDifferent PeoplesFlesh And Blood Author:Amy Poehler
“The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline.” MenSelfYoungPurposeReadingOpportunityChanceAbilityStudyPlansPositionHabitDisciplineExerciseSelf ImprovementOrganizationFellowsImprovementYoung ManRisingAddressesAssociationSelf DisciplineEarnestCompassAffording Author:B. C. Forbes
“In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy of the literate, once we've crossed over to the land of the reading, everything changes.” WayYoungReadingAbilityLandDividesConspiracyThings Change Author:Patricia T. O'Conner
“...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of the rules of a well-run corporation is that surprise is to be minimized. Yet if this rule were applied to the creative process, nothing worth reading would get written, nothing worth seeing would get painted, nothing worth living with and using would ever get designed.” IfsWellsPersonsRunningReadingProcessAbilityCreativeWrittenSeeingSurpriseCorporationsCreative ProcessTolerateAmbiguityWorth LivingHallmarkCreative PersonInconsistencyDissonanceWorth Reading Author:Ralph Caplan