Books Quote by Charlie Huston Download Open image “The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.” — Charlie Huston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Intimate Reader Reading Unpredictable
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience.… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust. — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“Or maybe this is the true order. To bring together the need with the thind that is needed.” — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
Things are as bad as you fear they are. People are as bad as you think they are. The Universe does not care. — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“There something I can do to get this over with quick? Like, can I just run in front of a cab and take my… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“Yeah, good to see you too. Her hand stays on the gun. “Did I say it was good to see you, Joe? “No, but… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
He has one of those heads people think about cutting off." “Yes. He does. — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“It’s not that fact of him telling me he’s not going to kill me that assures me I’ve got some time to breathe. Predo… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“That's what happens when you get a regular job, other people's shit becomes your problem. 'Course, by the time you got that figured, it's… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
When you learn economy. It strips away self-indulgence. Just in the act itself it requires a certain amount of humility. You have to accept… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“The man breeds lies. He spawns them asexually, with no need for any assistance. He exhales and lies fill the air. Alone in a… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“--Tell them to drop their guns and fuck off out of my way. --Allow him to-- I clamp my arm tight. --That's not what… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
“At Marcy I spot what I am looking for and shimmy up a lampost and untangle the pair of sneakers that some kid has… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
