My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.
To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.
I hope that, reading ‘Rosa,’ people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.
To write poems, I think it’s important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.
My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
Decide, before you start, that you’re going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you’re reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn’t to persuade you to change, it’s to help you choose what to change.
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.
I’m never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.
In the past few years I’ve assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people – people who supposedly want to write – read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them.
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don’t count-I mean something with print in it.
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.
I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.