Reading Quotes · Page 114

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.

— Frederik Pohl

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

— Keri Russell

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a…

— Craig Finn

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

— Maxwell Perkins

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

— Sergio Leone

“Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

— Evelyn Underhill

“I like reading and all that, but a crave to get back to the life of my infancy and all its freedom.…

— Thomas Hardy

It's always an exciting prospect when you're reading a script and you're almost starting to speak, you're almost reading out loud very…

— Jason Watkins

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a…

— Laurie Notaro

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This…

— Jodi Picoult

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young,…

— Jack Prelutsky

I used to read every, well, most nights. I think reading helps me in terms of relaxing... It helps me to get…

— Rio Ferdinand

I will have an endless invisible night and read all those books and understand all until I am a liquid chromium cascade…

— Anonymous

Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines -…

— Oren Peli

It always struck me as pretty cool that people who changed the world often knew each other. After reading them separately, hearing…

— Joe Lonsdale

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like…

— Susan Orlean

Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain…

— Michael Cunningham

This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to…

— Milan Kundera

Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm…

— Robert Walser

“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible.…

— Frank Conroy

“I collect new books the way my friends collect designer handbags. Sometimes, I just like to know I have them and actually…

— Jennifer Kaufman

Adam Brown’s zest for life led him down a few dark alleys and more than one dead end. Kind-hearted and wild, Adam…

— Stu Weber

“But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?" "Yes, I am fond of history." "I wish I were…

— Jane Austen

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

— Benjamin Franklin

Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts.

— Andrew Guzaldo

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

— Benjamin Carson

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

— Francis Bacon

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

— Rebecca Eaton

This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.

— J. K. Rowling

“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.”

— Anonymous

“If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.”

— T.A. Uner

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.

— Charles Barkley

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

— Frederick Busch

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts…

— Mortimer Adler

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

— Libba Bray

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

— Diana Gabaldon