Reading Quotes · Page 105

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.

— William Zinsser

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

— Marie Dressler

I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.

— Richard Dawkins

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

— Mark McCormack

I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

— Gavin Newsom

“She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.”

— Glen Duncan

“I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.”

— Manoj Arora

“Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

When I found out I was pregnant, the first thing that had to go was the acne medicine and chemical-filled face washes…

— Marisa Miller

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel…

— Wendell Phillips

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to…

— Penelope Lively

“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading…

— Robin McKinley

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and…

— Rick Moody

“A good story invites us into someone else's world where we learn, discover commonalities, and leave with compassion and understanding.”

— Lynda Cheldelin Fell

Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I…

— Vivienne Westwood

I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell…

— Laurie R. King

“If you will read and listen, you will admit a multiplicity of voices and points of view, consider them with some humility,…

— Rick Gekoski

With acting, if a friend asked me to be in a movie or TV show, there's a lot of things on my…

— Bob Odenkirk

“Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a…

— Randy Ingermanson

Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

An eye-opening moment in my life, a very defining moment, was the first time I met Susan Sarandon [before shooting Thelma &…

— Geena Davis

“She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself, in the room of her house, and when she glanced over…

— Michael Cunningham

“A great number of elements in the characters’ lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. […] These characters, I…

— Pierre Bayard

All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions…

— Dave Barry

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.

— Ronald Reagan

“Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned.”

— Susan Coolidge

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

— Woody Allen

“Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein”

— Mark Rubinstein

“I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

— Jeff VanderMeer

“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.”

— Katherine Paterson

“Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.”

— V.C. Andrews

Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they…

— E.M. Forster

“Words are directed to your personalities namely; - God, your hearers, devil and yourself.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.”

— Jaako J. Wallenius

“We shouldn’t ask if life has a meaning, we should ask to whom life has what kinds of meanings”

— S.E. SEVER

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

— Abraham Lincoln