“Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.” GivingKindMeanPersonsBookIdeasFactsHelpingReadingIndividualSpeakLanguageCommonEffectsCommunicationEfficientComposingShorthand Author:Charles Scribner IV
“A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.” PersonsDoneWholeCultureReadingCan DoSummerResearchMy FamilySpain Author:Maya Beiser
“If a carpenter makes a chair that's comfortable for the person who's going to sit in it, he's done his job. If a train engineer gets a train in on time, he's going to make someone happy who's waiting at the station. And if an artist draws the kind of a picture that people are going to enjoy looking at, or he makes a visual story which people are going to enjoy reading, he's done his job.” PeopleIfsKindPersonsDoneStoriesJobsArtistReadingWaitingEnjoyComfortableDrawsTrainVisualsChairsStationsEngineersCarpenterMake Someone Happy Author:Jack Kirby
“I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone before that it's sort of like a fractal. It's gone to a level of detail that the average person could not possibly follow unless you're a fan. It iterates upon many prior generations of iterations.” WritingPersonsReadingLiteratureLevelsFictionGoneGenerationsFansScience FictionAverageDetailsMore TimeAverage PersonFractals Author:James Cameron
“If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.” IfsWorldKindPersonsDifferentReadingSportsLevelsClassOne ThingCapableAthleteDefinitionsGenesCompetingAbnormalWorld ClassOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show. When you're reading a character's thoughts or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me that's what the whole point of fiction is.” FirstsKindPersonsHardWholeCharacterStoriesShowsAbleFilmReadingOpportunityFictionNovelTvsComplexesComplicatedInternalsTv ShowsFirst Person Author:Joe Meno
“I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.” ThinkingKnowsPersonsMadeBookNightReadingKnowingFansCryFiguresReaderCriticalTouchedReviewsMailAll NightUp All NightFan Mail Author:Jodi Picoult
“I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going "It's me! I'm the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!"” WantPersonsReadingSubjectsStandingBoxesSupermarketsAisleStanding Down Author:Bill Henson
“I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.” IfsWritingPersonsBookMightAbleReadingEnjoyMaterialsInspiredGood Book Author:Peg Kehret
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” InspirationalPersonsBookHumorFunnyReadingPleasureNovelStupidGentlemanClassicEpicJaneRomance NovelBooks And ReadingPleasure Of ReadingReading NovelsReading For PleasureBest Novel Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1 Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“The weird job of acting is that it is so simple. You just see the person in the situation. It is whatever you have to do to get there. Some people want to stay up all night or cut their toe off. For me it is a bunch of reading, and hanging out with real people, I do that. You never know what you are going to get. It might be the shoes people wear.” PeopleKnowsWantPersonsRealMightJobsNightReadingSimpleActingSituationCuttingShoesBunchHanging OutToesAll NightUp All Night Author:Jason Isaacs
“The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.” ThinkingMindWellsPersonsDifferentJoyReadingTermCrucialStretchingDifferent PlaceWell RoundedJoy Of Reading Author:Gayle King
“I don't read reviews. Just because that is something that's directly connected to my job. I'm doing this because I love it, not because I'm necessarily looking for approval or anything like that. To me, it seems that reading reviews - whether they're good ones or bad ones - can only sort of force the person to divorce themselves from the reality of what it is they do for a living. So I don't read reviews.” PersonsRealitySeemsJobsReadingForceConnectedDivorceReviewsApproval Author:Kate Winslet
“Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.” NeedsWellsLooksPersonsBookStoriesLastsReadingFashionBoringMagazinesFashion Magazines Author:Vivienne Westwood
“To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What was it like to have been alive then? What were these people like as human beings?” PeopleHumansPersonsHas BeensBookReadingHuman BeingsAttentionAliveReader Author:David McCullough
“That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can have enough comprehension, which means the person writing it would've had to have a sense of a someday-audience.” WritingMeanPersonsRealEnoughReadingDifferencesNovelAudienceSomedayJournalComprehension Author:Cris Mazza
“Seeking - really seeking - is more than just reading a few verses from the Bible in the morning and trying to be a good person that day. Seeking requires me to sacrifice the things I feel compelled to chase so I can be available to notice God’s clear direction. Whatever we chase, like it or not, gains our full attention. Dear Lord, forgive me for all the times I’ve rushed by Your gifts and overlooked Your blessings. Today, I want to pause and really seek You with all I’ve got. I love You, Lord. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.” WantFeelsTryingPersonsI CanTodayReadingJesusNamesAttentionLordMorningClearSacrificeLove YouBlessingGainsForgivingDearSeekingAvailableVersesPausesCompelledGood PersonAmenOverlookedForgive MeBeing A Good PersonDear LordLord Forgive MeJesus NameClear Direction Author:Lysa TerKeurst
“The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.” KnowsPersonsHelpingProblemReadingSadnessAdviceLettersColumns Author:Emily Yoffe
“I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the lack of humanity I saw in myself was disgusting. I never took into account what a homeless person might have been through.” PersonsHas BeensMightHumanityReadingLevelsSawsJudgmentAccountsScriptsDisgustingShelterHomelessMight Have Been Author:Paul Bettany
“...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
“As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.” GivingPersonsTwoFormReadingCommunicationReaderSublimity Author:E. B. White
“The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.” MindPersonsSoulReadingBreathsMere Author:Verlyn Klinkenborg
“Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish.” PersonsBookRealEndsReadingWishPerceptionReal Person Author:Patricia Montandon