Reading Quotes · Page 135

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

“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

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

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

— Peter Morgan

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

— Robert Christgau

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in…

— Rosanne Cash

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more…

— Bill Murray

I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing.…

— Eve Bunting

I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through…

— Natasha Trethewey

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music,…

— Carolyn Davidson

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either…

— Alice Munro

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only…

— David Petraeus

When the magazines talk about artists they talk about the Paul McCartneys, the Paul Simons, they never talk about me. So their…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

“Dr. Manning said he'd thought at first it might be sleeping sickness, or even narcolepsy, whatever that was, but - no, Pete…

— Henry Kuttner

“Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe they are big. Maybe…

— Jeff Hutchins

I don't really have a bucket list, but if I did, one entry would be to dust off my college Russian and…

— Erik Larson

“My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to…

— David Bowie

“It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which,…

— Henry David Thoreau

When I realized I was depressed, then I started reading up about it. When I read that one in four people are…

— Deepika Padukone

Graphic novels might really speak to one child who's struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to…

— Mao Zedong

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

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

— Melvil Dewey

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

— Rodney Dangerfield

“Reading is like therapy; the characters are the therapist, their world is their office, and the adventures are the sessions.”

— Jordan Bowers

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

— Marcus Aurelius

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

“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

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

— Walter Jon Williams

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

— Eric Schmidt

“Asking me if I like reading is like asking me if I like breathing.”

— Anonymus

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

— Armie Hammer

When I'm reading a book and someone asks me what I'm reading, I don't answer. I just raise book up, so they…

— Anonymous

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

— Julianne Moore

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

— Samuel Johnson