Quotes by Reading Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to Alan Kay reading writing art I should have written books instead of reading them. Alan Lightman reading should-have book I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I tend to think that if something was derived for one medium, then there's no real immediate reason to think that it's necessarily going to be as good or better if adapted into another one. There have been very good stage plays that have made some very good films. But there are not so many differences between the theater and the cinema as there are between the cinema and, say, reading a book or reading a comic. Alan Moore real reading book Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much. Alan Tudyk rumination reading world Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down! Alane Ferguson voice reading adventure Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das Kapital over a folk-song melody, and it's a spectacular failure, in my opinion. Alasdair MacLean opinion reading song How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”. Alastair Reynolds sunday technology reading 'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read. Albert Bushnell Hart wine reading would-be There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own. Albert Einstein reading writing book Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein creativity reading fall I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like. Albert Einstein reading writing looks The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. Albert Einstein reading spiritual inspirational My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books. Albert Einstein reading book thinking When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.) Albert Einstein moon reading children The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write. Albert Einstein reading writing book I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing. Albert Goldbarth reading writing meaningful As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. Albert J. Nock reading book interesting Sometimes you go to a film and well, you are not very concentrated. In reading, you have to concentrate, to spend the time it requires in order to feel the experience of the work. You have to put all of yourself there to experience something new and to feel and perceive an atmosphere that is unprecedented. Albert Serra atmosphere reading order Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. Alberto Manguel rebirth reading book The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. Alberto Manguel thought-provoking reading book «1234567891011»