Reading Quotes · Page 108

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

— Tony Hillerman

“Shout out for Joy! Don't scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

— Charlotte Bronte

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

— Anonymous

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

— Lee Child

We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.

— Herbert Hoover

“Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.”

— Aman Jassal

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

— Robert M. Gates

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with…

— Ramona Koval

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only…

— Henry Miller

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be…

— David Brainerd

I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me…

— Jonathan Dee

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the…

— R. A. Salvatore

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you…

— Steven Wright

Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words…

— Elena Ferrante

People always imagine that the whole of Victorian England was sitting around reading Alice in Wonderland - in fact only a tiny…

— Michael Rosen

I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on…

— Eddie Huang

The good thing about life is that you can research anywhere you are. I'm just constantly gathering little bits of information all…

— Louie Giglio

I won’t lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.…

— Richelle Mead

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because…

— Terry Pratchett

“This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates…

— Christian Tetzlaff

For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You…

— Bill Henson

“Responding to a moderator at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2008 (video), about the Spanish words in his book: When all of…

— Junot Diaz

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

— Charles Kingsley

I felt like Jason Behr and I had such a unique chemistry. He just walked in and we started reading together, it…

— Shiri Appleby

The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.

— Patanjali

The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.

— Dennis Miller

I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.

— Felice Picano

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

— Victor Borge

I like reading about the astronomical and celestial world a lot.

— Mukul Dev

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

— Richard Powers

Reading music is good for training, getting things done in a hurry. It doesn't teach you nothing about feeling.

— Jaimoe

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

— Jan Struther

I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully.

— Tom Felton

“The characters' lives were so much more interesting than the lonely hearbeat of my own”

— Ruth Sepetys

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

— Laura Lippman

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.

— Salvatore Scibona