Top 1200 Reading Experience Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

The "essence" of comics is fundamentally the weird process of reading pictures, not just looking at them. I see the black outlines of cartoons as visual approximations of the way we remember general ideas, and I try to use naturalistic color underneath them to simultaneously suggest a perceptual experience, which I think is more or less the way we actually experience the world as adults; we don't really "see" anymore after a certain age, we spend our time naming and categorizing and identifying and figuring how everything all fits together.

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

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.

The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.

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

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

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

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.

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in Government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.

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

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

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

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.

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

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.

No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

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

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

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a book, or watching a movie, or watching a play is that you're watching a dream.

I was in a Bible study, Henry Blackaby's 'Experiencing God,' and I started to experience God as I was reading the pages of this workbook and studying scripture with some friends, and we all just searching to fill that void in our lives.

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

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

After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.

I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend six hours a day reading. People say their eyes get tired, but I've never experienced that. In college I used to read 10 hours a day. My wife says I'm obsessive compulsive. She might have a point because when I was an undergrad student we had the required reading list and the suggested reading list. I always read all the suggested reading too.

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

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

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

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

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.

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.

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

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.

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

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

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

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

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

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

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

It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

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

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.

Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.