Reading Quotes · Page 112

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

— Virginia Woolf

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

— Robert Frost

“Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book.”

— Aneta Cruz

“For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“The process of reading is somehow heightened through the process of doing it near water. Extreme reading!”

— Christian Lander

White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

— Katherine Losse

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

— Karl Lagerfeld

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

— Nicole Krauss

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…

— Yann Martel

I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm…

— Karen Traviss

“...being daunted by her father in every intellectual attempt, she read every book that came in her way, almost with as much…

— Elizabeth Gaskell Wives and Daughters

I want my work to be as inclusive as possible, because sex isn't just for some selected group of people, it's for…

— Rachel Kramer Bussel

Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and…

— George Eliot

Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home.…

— Truman Capote

In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it…

— Greta Gerwig

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work…

— Leszek Kolakowski

“Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book. You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the…

— Thomas Wharton

I'm reading the Gospels at the moment and I can find no evidence of the kind of Christ people seem to have…

— Franco Zeffirelli

First and foremost, I'm an athlete. And I'm an Olympian. I'm not a gay Olympian. I'm just an Olympian that's also gay.…

— Adam Rippon

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing…

— Roald Dahl

I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard…

— Virginia Madsen

Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You…

— Freddie Hubbard

I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are…

— William Kristol

I'm in school every day. It depends on what it is that you do with all that free time when I'm not…

— MC Lyte

I've loved reading since I was a kid. Sometimes I have two or three books going at the same time.

— Leslie Uggams

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

— Laurence Sterne

I think, reading about yourself through somebody else's eyes, you're always going to have your own story.

— Greg Sestero

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

— Samuel Butler

I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure.

— Cara Buono

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

— Richard de Bury

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

— James Taylor

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

— Gail Carson Levine

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

— Elizabeth George

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

— Thomas Bernhard

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

— Melvil Dewey

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

— Rodney Dangerfield

“Reading is like therapy; the characters are the therapist, their world is their office, and the adventures are the sessions.”

— Jordan Bowers

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

— Marcus Aurelius

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf