People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this book every night for months, something is not right.
All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga’s twitter, because she has like 12 million followers, or something like that. I feel like she has fans, gay, straight, bi, who would throw themselves off a building for her.
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four years after that.
I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.