A Quote by Gerald Brenan
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
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The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being.
There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later.
No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.
The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it’s worse than zero, because it represents territory you’re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you’ll abandon your book.
Going through your reads, there is always an answer. And if you consistently, from a mental standpoint as a quarterback, go through your reads, you always give your team a chance to win.
I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.
I find the idea of the recap page to be something of a waste. It's the page nobody ever reads and it's even worse because it doesn't tell you who anybody really is.
No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.
The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays the effort. I started reading it in high school, but I wasn't really able to grasp it. Then I read it in college. I once spent six weeks in a graduate seminar reading it. It takes that long. That's the problem. No one reads that way anymore. People may spend a week with a book, but not six.
There are Michael Scott moments, which are character choices, but there are also Steve's reads. Usually the things that I'm the biggest fan of are these weird reads that he does - just the way he's interacting with other people.
A lot of today's campaigns are based on optimum positioning but are totally ineffective - because they are dull, or badly constructed, or ineptly written. If nobody reads your advertisement or looks at your commercial, it doesn't do you much good to have the right positioning.
My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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