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Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.”

Thinking Writing May Matter Would Be Reading Force Deals Teach Nice Wonderful Reader Genius Skills Lust Being Nice Glowing Avid Immersion

Author:Tanith Lee

“When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the books I am reading, personal events, influences, emotions, etc. - all find their way into my work.”

Thinking Way Book Reading Emotion Influence Events Painting Currents Etc Current Events

Author:Ali Banisadr

“And honestly, if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.”

Ifs Thinking Reading Planets News Reports Accurate Mistaken

Author:Bruce Schneier

“You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.”

“Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.”

Thinking Writing Reading Stuff Pursuit Solitary Worth Reading

Book:The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set

Source: The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set

“We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?”

Ifs Thinking Years Said Home Mother Reading Winning Steps Enemy One Day Paper I Realized Newspapers Oscars Papers

Author:Ferran Adria

“When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?”

Thinking World Kind Doe Book Ends Reason Stories Bigs Care Guy Turns Girl Reading Given Novel Data Winner Plot Adultery

Author:Elif Batuman

“As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.”

Thinking Should Reading Objects Train Mere Various Copies Pupils

Book:The Enquirer

Source: The Enquirer

“Ultimately I think the difference between reading the Bible and studying it is making the connections between who Jesus is and what he's done.”

Thinking Done Reading Jesus Differences Study Connections Reading The Bible Who Jesus Is

Author:Mark Driscoll

“Almost everyone working in mainstream comics started off as a starry-eyed kid reading and loving comics. We're all fans, and that's great. But when we start working on company-owned comics professionally, we have to think like storytellers instead of fans. Editors aren't looking to hire the biggest fans of the characters. They're looking to hire the best creators with the best ideas.”

Thinking Book Ideas Character Kids Reading Company Fans Creator Comic Editors Mainstream Comic Book Storyteller Reading For Kids Biggest Fan

Author:Greg Pak

“The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.”

“To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.”

Thinking Knows Needs Years Mind Kind Reading Effort Talking Activity Mathematics Busy Math Mathematical Contemplation Reasoning Behaviour Simplest Newton Not Talking Calculating

Author:George Spencer-Brown

“I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in. Those are the kind of films that I like to see. Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts. Does that make any sense?”

Thinking Wells Kind Mean Doe Might Film Choices Reading Scripts Get Better Making Choices

Author:Benicio Del Toro

“I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Stories Reading Sound Tree Stage Painting Bird

Author:Ali Banisadr

“Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on my computer. You'll read and then all of a sudden part of your brain is like, "What about that? ...You're not reading the whole book. You're reading fragments. Even though I think it's bad, I think it's interesting too, because that's the way my brain works.”

Thinking Way I Can Book Whole Reading Interesting Brain One Thing Internet Computer Pages Fragments Surfing

Author:Ali Banisadr

“The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it's perverse of me to ignore it.”

People Thinking Trying Years Book Christian Reading Jesus Mistake Support Meetings Jew Educated Making Mistakes Testament New Testament Scholarship

Author:David Plotz

“Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.”

“I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project, or trying to get involved with a project, or thinking about a project, and what particular emotional flavor that brings. To me, it's never really about planning the next thing, or the career arc. It's about investigating how I feel, from project to project, and finding things that I haven't explored and what that would be like.”

Thinking Feels Trying Would Be Reading Next Careers Havens Emotional Particular Involved Findings Projects Planning Flavor Get Involved Arcs Investigating Feels Just

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part of it was having my New Yorker editor and part of it is that was when I started really going on tour and reading things in front of an audience 30 times and then going back in the room and rewriting it and reading it and rewriting it. So you really get the rhythm of the sentences down and you really get the flow down and you get rid of stuff that's not important.”

Thinking Knows Writing Wells Important Reading Stuff Rooms Audience Fronts Flow Down And Sentences Rhythm Editors New Yorkers Rewriting

Author:David Sedaris

“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

“Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to just hit the backhand. You can't think about all the pieces of it. You can't think about your swing. You just have to do it. Reading someone else's deconstruction of what I do, all it does is put me in my head. On nights when the show goes particularly well, I am not aware of its fluidity. A lot of nights I'm just worried that I'm not going to be as good as the script in front of me.”

Thinking Wells Doe Shows Able Beautiful Night Reading Pieces Fronts Jokes Scripts Worried Comedian Endeavor Swings Athletic Deconstruction Fluidity

Author:Stephen Colbert

“People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.”

People Thinking Knows Want Wells Enough Care Reading Ought Don't Care

Book:God's Men: A Novel

Source: God's Men: A Novel

“It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.”

Thinking Needs Mean Art Hands Artist Order Courses Reading Easy Too Much Practicals Resistance Works Of Art Leisure Deprivation Poignant

Book:The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore

Source: The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore

“Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.”

Thinking Book Reading Imagination Reader Add

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.”

Thinking Men Writing Reading Fine Stronger Impression Strokes Relish Great Author

Book:The British Essayists: Containing the Spectator, with Notes and General Index, and the Tatler and Guardian, with Notes and General Index

Source: The British Essayists: Containing the Spectator, with Notes and General Index, and the Tatler and Guardian, with Notes and General Index

“I cannot sit and think; books think for me.”

Thinking Book Reading

Book:The Essays of Elia and Eliana

Source: The Essays of Elia and Eliana

“Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?”

Thinking Book Reading Five Minutes Ready Depends Six Dinner Queens Volume Sermons Impatient Bishops Faerie Andrew

Author:Charles Lamb

“reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear.”

Thinking Way Want Writing Persons Reading Rooms Creative Reader Higher Disappear Tricks Indian Passive Rope

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much the same way you nourish the gift of writing - you read, think, talk, look, listen, hate, fear, love, weep - and bring all of your life like a sieve to what you read. That which is not worthy of your gift will quickly pass through, but the gold remains.”

Thinking Way Writing Looks Book Hate Reading Natural Creative Gold Remains Worthy Book Reading Fear Of Love Not Worthy Atrophy Natural Gifts

Book:The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children

Source: The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children

“The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.”

“Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.”

Thinking Wells Made Book Use Reading Opinion Genius Originality Reading Books Spoil Book Reading

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards.”

Thinking Giving Feels Should Trying Poetry Reading Poet Reader Quiet Flames Swiftness

Author:Sara Teasdale

“Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.”

Thinking Men Book Reading Given Difficult Born He Man Personality Stations

Book:Recollections: Personal and Literary

Source: Recollections: Personal and Literary

“I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' - but the mystics don't deal with feelings but with love which is a very different thing. You have too many 'feelings,' but not nearly enough love.”

Thinking Book Different Enough Feelings Reading Hurt Deals Different Things Mysticism Enough Love

Author:Evelyn Underhill

“I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Long Two Reading Cities Known Novel Lovers Tales Well Known Long Life Dickens Tale Of Two Cities

Author:George Brandis

“I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are spoken word poems that, when you see them, you're aware of the fact they need to be performed. That there's something about that poem that you would not be able to understand if you were just reading it on a piece of paper.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Believe Facts Able Reading I Believe Pieces Example Paper Spoken Word

Author:Sarah Kay

“People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading, its that almost everything out there sucks. For so long, publishing has been run by a cartel of snobby pseudo-intellectual failed writers, and the resulting output has reflected not what the market wants, but what they think people are supposed to read.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Long Has Beens Problem Running Reading Given Intellectual Publishing Proven Output Pseudo Cartels Snobby Pseudo Intellectuals

Author:Tucker Max

“I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Children Book Kids Reading Parent Objects Possession

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!”

Thinking Knows Would Be Able Desire Reading Born Music Century Research Blessed Library Pity Museums Unending

Author:Wanda Landowska

“if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Reading Audience Written Periods

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.”

“I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.”

Thinking Reading Next Novel

Book:Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

Source: Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

“Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.”

Thinking Today Reading President More Time

Author:Kathleen Hall Jamieson

“I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.”

Thinking Want Firsts Kind Book Might Kids Reading Games Fun Enjoy Moral Teach Tvs Messages Video

Author:Louis Sachar

“A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to act, to create - all of these are inherent in a love of reading.”

Thinking Book Reading Understanding Pleasure Insight Reading Books Select Book Reading Love Of Reading

Book:Summoned by Books: Essays and Speeches by Frances Clarke Sayers

Source: Summoned by Books: Essays and Speeches by Frances Clarke Sayers

“With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more every day, the thinking American asks how she is to believe in love when there is war all about her, and in each of her deeply felt lyrics, Elyse Fenton confronts this question with the kind of tenderness one lover reserves for another. If every poem is indeed a love poem,Clamor is indeed a debut worth reading and about which we must make noise.”

“I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as collections. That's not true of all story collections, to be honest, but for good ones I think it often is true.”

Thinking Said Stories Reading Individual Honest Magazines Being Honest Collections Often Is Reading Stories

Author:Brian Evenson

“I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality.”

People Thinking Way Feels Humans Book Stories Feelings Reality Reading My Own Behinds Fantasy Conditions Surface Gaps Human Condition Fantasy And Reality

Author:Signe Baumane

“As an author, I don't really think too much about being a celebrity. It's not like being a movie star or a TV star. It's not as if people recognize me when I walk down the street. That hardly ever happens, and it's just as well. But it is great when people know my books, when I walk through an airport and see them in the bookstore, or when I see someone reading a book on a plane or on a train, and it's something I've written. That's a wonderful feeling.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Book Feelings Happens Reading Stars Walks Too Much Wonderful Written Streets Tvs Train Planes Movie Star Airports Bookstores

Author:Rick Riordan

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