I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.
Books are something social – a writer speaking to a reader – so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpful.
Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.
I’m a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it’s important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you’re saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.
As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don’t want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I’m looking at magazines and I’m reading comics, and I’m asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.
She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.
It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn’t stale, that hasn’t been breathed by my family a thousand times already.
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
When you’re unhappy, I guess everything in the world – reading, eating, sleeping – has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.
Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they’re not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.
Reading begets reading.
The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.