Reading Quotes · Page 113

“What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.”

— Gabrielle Dubois

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do…

— Matthew Perry

Everything I know about Facebook makes me want to avoid it. Twitter has really improved my reading habits.

— Robert Christgau

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

— Maxim Gorky

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

— Eileen Myles

When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.

— Celeste Ng

I used to spend hours reading the Sunday papers, but then I had 900 children so I don't any more.

— Claudia Winkleman

Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing Encourage More Reading..!

— Sujit Lalwani

Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education…

— Rebecca Mead

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading…

— Guy Johnson

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

— William Eggleston

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how…

— Muhammad Ali

Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I'm interested in…

— Dave McKean

'The Dublin Magazine' has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do…

— George A. Moore

“I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again…

— Jo Walton

I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up…

— Hideo Kojima

“The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful.…

— Charles Bukowski

I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very…

— Danielle Dutton

“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike…

— Victor Null

One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy…

— Ralph Keyes

Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated…

— Vint Cerf

I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or…

— Dan Chaon

When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models.…

— Michelle Magorian

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

— Peter Morgan

“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read…

— Erika Johansen

“A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.”

— Gabrielle Dubois

Society needs youngsters with well-developed personalities and not just bookworms.

— Kirron Kher

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

— Jon Foreman

“You could learn to read in a few months, easy, and magic and reading are sort of the same thing.”

— Sarah Wynde

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

— Hilary Mantel

I've tried to stop reading comments online because if you believe everything, it makes you feel like rubbish.

— Katie Piper

I write about so much personal stuff, it's like reading my diary.

— Noah Cyrus

Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.

— Lemmy Kilmister

No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

— Ed Byrne

“Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.”

— Kellie Elmore

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

“The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes.”

— Peter Mendelsund

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

— P. C. Cast

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte