Top 1200 Close Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

I never liked reading books or reading anything - I'm a pictures guy.

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.

Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else's experience, especially reading fiction.

It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this...the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here. It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at the close of this life but this passage of St. Paul: "It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." To this I cleave, and herein do I find rest.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even at its most intense and verisimilitudinous is vicarious, and once you close the book you're off the hook.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

I'm bringing reading back. I'm making reading great again!

You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody's living room.

We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all walks of life and from throughout the community reading to them, that is another opportunity for children to see the importance of reading.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that for an entirely different reason.