Reading Quotes · Page 13

“I was reading.”

— Ghandi

“Hey you, read a book. Now.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

“an incredibly beautiful read”

— Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Reading is not lonely.”

— Rainbow Rowell

Reading is my passion.

— Kate DiCamillo

Reading means borrowing.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I was never a bookworm at all.

— Anna Soubry

Reading is not optional.

— Walter Dean Myers

“The cognitively unsound concept of “close reading” Author”

— Terry Marselle

I didn't grow up reading the Bible.

— Anna Diop

“Well so what if they’re just stories? What if I need them?”

— Ben Rector

“When reading dies, the imagination soon follows.”

— Ronnie Ray Jenkins

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

— Tom Baker

“The show must go on, and so must The Book.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

— Phyllis McGinley

Nothing good comes of reading other people's emails.

— Mallory Ortberg

I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was…

— Gillian Flynn

“What you don’t want to change is exactly what you need to change the most”

— Ela Crain

“A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.”

— Los Angeles Times

I remember reading about the Marie Celeste when I was a kid and becoming obsessed with what happened.

— Tana French

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

— John Bosco

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

— Rick Warren

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

— Irving Howe

I am a very nerdy reader in that I am as disciplined about my reading as I am about my writing.

— Elin Hilderbrand

“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." [ The Sick Chamber ( The…

— William Hazlitt

I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is…

— Alberto Manguel

“A woman can tolerate delays knowing they are not denials; she is diligent, and composed. She is not easily irritated like love;…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at…

— Sarah Jio

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first…

— Rick Moody

...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish…

— Anonymous

“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite…

— Ray Bradbury

Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day.…

— Oswald Chambers

“We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to…

— Marcel Proust

“In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the…

— Benjamin R. Smith

Found one of my old journals. from right around the time we were heading out on tour with NFG in the UK…

— Hayley Williams

I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows…

— Jenny Lawson

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language…

— Sven Birkerts

“From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to…

— Mario Vargas Llosa