Reading Quotes · Page 110

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

— Cassandra Clare

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

— Sandra Cisneros

I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias.

— Arfa Karim

I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go.

— Ben Fogle

Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read.

— Doris Lessing

“I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity…

— Scott Turow

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a…

— Mary Jo Salter

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm always reading books, I'm always having encounters, I'm always taking trips. Whatever it is you come up with about how you…

— Nick Laird

One of the most important things that we as Christians can do is regularly fill our hearts and minds with God's Word.…

— Christine Caine

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that…

— Stanley Crawford

Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not…

— Michael Portillo

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also…

— Leo Tolstoy

I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime…

— Gordon T. Smith

Since I started as a comic person then became a musician to me it was interesting because I have this really great,…

— Gerard Way

What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear…

— William Gurnall

Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

I was lying in bed on a Saturday morning, reading the paper, when my phone went. The caller was Rangers director, Jack…

— Alex Ferguson

What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison…

— Caridad Svich

Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from…

— Mallory Ortberg

“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

— Anonymous

“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison”

— Sean Liburd

You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you’re reading G.K. Chesterton, then you’re a Catholic.

— Ross Douthat

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

— Jason Blum

“Just as an apple a day keeps the doctor away,a book a week keeps the mind ever sleek”

— Azuka Onwuka

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

— Chad Lindberg

“novels can be the greatest teachers of all. They teach the person reading without the person ever realizing it.” Morgan”

— Lynnette Bonner

I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.

— Michael Franti

“Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

— Elizabeth Berg

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

— Judy Blume

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

— Henny Youngman

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

— Sheryl Crow

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

— John Millington Synge

Surfing and trail running chill me out. I like reading, too. And playing my guitar - I wish I were better.

— Alex O'Loughlin

“I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did.”

— Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows