Top 1200 Reading Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

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

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

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

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.

When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.

Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.

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

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

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.

I loved reading. I was one of those kids who was supposed to go to bed but had a torch under the duvet. That love of reading stayed with me.

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.

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

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

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

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

The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.

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 don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'

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

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 am always reading or thinking about reading.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.

As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.

I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

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

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

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

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

I have so much energy. I train, I travel, I'm learning about music and fashion, reading a lot. I don't want to miss anything. I want to experience everything.

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

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

My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.

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

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.