Reading Quotes · Page 121

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

— J. K. Rowling

You can't start a new chapter of the book if you keep re-reading the last one.

— Anonymous

“Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.”

— Lemony Snicket

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”

— Jane Austen

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

— Gina Barreca

A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky.

— Quran

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

— William Osler

“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”

— Robin Waterfield

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books,…

— Ray Bradbury

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a…

— Roger Penrose

“Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of…

— Mark Edmundson

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to…

— Anonymous

“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with…

— Susan Sontag

“My favourite place in the whole city was the Sempere & Sons bookshop on Calle Santa Anna. It smelled of old paper…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library…

— Dale T. Mortensen

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time…

— Diane Setterfield

“Reading may be the last secretive behavior that is neither pathological or prosecutable. It is certainly the last refuge from the real-time…

— Richard Powers

The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've…

— Al Feldstein

While you certainly will recognize 'Outlander' if you've been reading the books, there's also this wonderful sense of novelty and discovery about…

— Diana Gabaldon

I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never…

— Colin Thompson

I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep…

— T.C. Boyle

We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that…

— Jane Bown

The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is…

— Paul Virilio

“If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing…

— Niall Williams

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

— Wislawa Szymborska

“Relax fully into the present—the only time and place where you exist”

— Ela Crain

You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

— Anonymous

I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).

— W. C. Fields

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

— Marianne Moore

“12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

— Friedrich Kittler

I'm good at reading people. If I wasn't an actor, I would be a psychologist.

— Finn Wolfhard

The standup thing has been really fun, really seeing the United States instead of reading about it.

— Jennifer Coolidge

I love reading about new advances in my industry. I love feeding my brain.

— Keith Barry

Books come from trees and flipping the pages sounds like wind through leaves

— CJoybell C

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

— Malachy McCourt

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

— Clive Thompson

I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk…

— Mitch Hedberg

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

— Samuel Johnson

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

— Daniel Handler