Adrian Tomine Quotes, Reading Quotes, Pages Quotes

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

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

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Reading Quotes , Book Quotes

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.

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Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Reading Quotes , Interesting Quotes

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Reading Quotes , Effort Quotes

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

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You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Art Quotes , Reading Quotes

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Reading Quotes , Mean Quotes

The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.

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Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Reading Quotes , Writing Quotes

In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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