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“I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.”

Looks Eye Moving Certain Hate Reading Spring I Hate Stuck Dialogue Comic Explanation Confused Composition Sticker

Author:Denise Mina

“Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.”

Way Writing Mind Heart Used Certain Courses Reading Imagination Encounters Heart And Mind Lifelong Reading And Writing

Book:Three papers on fiction

Source: Three papers on fiction

“Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.”

Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

“Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.”

May Made Certain Reading Bits Poet Cat Tongue Bags Suspicion Daft

Author:Dylan Thomas

“There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.”

Men Way Littles Character Use Past Certain Reading Observing Illuminating

Book:History in English Words by Owen Barfield

Source: History in English Words by Owen Barfield

“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.”

“Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.”

Way Important Whole Certain Reading Enjoy Mistake Missing Portions Phases Great Mistakes

Book:CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]

Source: CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]

“As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

Art Certain Reading Knowing Wise Stage Being Wise

Author:William James

“After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are reading, scarcely matters any more. We have put something of ourselves everywhere, everything is fertile, everything is dangerous, and we can make discoveries no less precious than in Pascal's Pensées in an advertisement for soap.”

Thinking Book Matter Age Certain Reading Memories Dangerous Discovery Pens Soap Our Memories Fertile Advertisements Intertwined Pascal

Book:The captive, The fugitive

Source: The captive, The fugitive

“A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.”

Certain Fall Reading Company Novel Minutes Students Reader Ten Fever Bad Company

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature