Reading Quotes · Page 115

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

— Alain de Botton

“Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.”

— Lemony Snicket

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

— Dr. Seuss

Reading a book and having to re-read the same paragraph over and over again because your thoughts are too distracting.

— AmiT

“Reading is an activity that not only expands the mind but also enhances the soul and cultivates ones character.”

— Anonymous

A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an…

— David Grinspoon

The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

— Elizabeth Olsen

“Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.”

— Emilie and Stephanie

You got to deal with reviews the same way you deal with your views, which I a long time ago stopped reading…

— Steven Soderbergh

I just stopped reading a lot of books. I mean, I read books that I have to read for school, but I…

— Mark Indelicato

I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily…

— Samantha Shannon

“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than…

— Jane Austen

I achieved everything one can achieve as a concert singer. Six Echo Klassik awards and three Grammys, and I also have my…

— Thomas Quasthoff

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn't associate…

— Noelle Stevenson

The problem with most digital comics is that you're simply taking print material and adapting it. It's like reading through a cardboard…

— Mark Waid

I go around with my books so much and I love to perform on stage, to remind everybody that the lights are…

— T.C. Boyle

“Even so-called 'short novels' are pretty long and can take several hours to read, so make sure you stay hydrated. I like…

— Richard Ayoade

I've never done a big series like 'Game of Thrones' before. All I knew was that it was HBO, and I'd seen…

— Liam Cunningham

It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of…

— Hazel Hawke

As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.…

— Joseph Brodsky

I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because…

— Matt Mullenweg

Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because…

— John Green

“What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the…

— Italo Calvino

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its…

— Claire Messud

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

— Mark Bernstein

I spend a lot of time reading. Also, I pen down my thoughts and perceptions about books I read.

— Mayank Agarwal

I grew up without TV, I grew up listening to radio, I grew up reading.

— Hilary Hahn

“Reading inspires us to reach further, imagine more, and search for our passports.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

— Samuel Rogers

Reading and writing isn't supposed to be this exclusive club; it's just supposed to be entertaining.

— Anna Todd

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

— Jane Austen

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

— J. K. Rowling

If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

— Nuala O'Faolain

“Melancholy isn’t a sign of the book’s end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading’s muse.”

— Andrew Piper

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.

— Eileen Favorite

I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from…

— Anonymous

“A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.”

— Chris Brady

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

— Jean de la Bruyere