Top 1200 Reading Experience Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.

Each weekday morning, I'm up - reading, reading, reading.

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

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.

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

I was in Mauritius, shooting for 'Break Ke Baad,' and I went for skydiving. It was a life-changing experience. Travelling, dancing, and reading are my other pastimes.

As an ethnic female in wrestling, there will be people reading my words and I want to set an example. I did experience racism.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

I'm always reading, and you learn a lot by reading. When I was twenty-five, I read a lot, but didn't have much reading behind me.

Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters - the saints and the sinners, real or imagined - reading shows you how to be a better human being.

Madefire is igniting a new era by creating a modern, dynamic reading experience and bringing that to the millions of iPad users around the world.

I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things.

There are definitely connections between poems, but I wanted each to stand on its own. I guess it goes back to the idea of trying to zoom in and out, and to modulate, so there are different ways of looking at any experience for the reader. Even having short poems and long poems - there has to be some kind of variation in the experience of reading as a whole.

Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.

?Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.

I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.

When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.

I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think that the strength of comics [is how they] really allow you to transcend those last barriers between a reader absorbing the information of an experience, and a reader being able to project themselves into the [experience of the] people about whom they're reading.

It's a wonderful experience to be reading a story and think you've got things all figured out, and then suddenly, it all goes upside-down on you.

I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

And I sometimes find that members of my family are reading completely different news from what I'm reading, because they're not reading general interest newspapers at all. They're getting all their news from certain Internet sites that are rather political.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong rush to the last page, the falling into a character's life, the deeper understanding we've gotten of a place or a time, or the feeling of reading words that are put together in a way that causes us to look at the world differently. We need to start thinking about what it is about a book that draws us in, rather than what the book is about.

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.

Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.

I love reading any interesting book. If it is boring I keep it forever after reading 4-5 pages of it. But if it is good, I can go on reading it no matter what genre it belongs to.

Again and again, Primo Levi's work is described as indispensable, essential, necessary. None of those terms overstate the case, but they do prepare readers new to Levi for a forbiddingly educative experience, making him a writer unlike all others and the experience of reading him a chore. Which it isn't.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

From my own experience, I know how important reading together can be for parents and children.

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only the best will do, for the rest - then one can let in anything one would like to read in the world.

I'm reading Elena Ferrante's 'Neapolitan' novels. They are amazing. I feel like she gets the entire experience of being a woman.

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.