Reading Quotes · Page 136

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

— Emma Thompson

“My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.”

— Edward Gibbon

“Every real reader must read Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: the whole of his/her life of reading will change its meaning.”

— Paolo Milani

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

— Jacques Barzun

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

— Ian Mcewan

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote…

— Anonymous

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

— Peter O'Toole

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

— William Faulkner

People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but…

— Gwee Li Sui

This is mainly because I spend a lot of time writing and so don't have much time to read; I hate to…

— Anonymous

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was…

— Vikram Seth

I found working in the lab is so completely different than reading a textbook about it. You know, you're planning strategies; you're…

— Eric Kandel

I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate…

— Maya Hawke

My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at…

— Helene Hanff

I like to exercise, going to the gym. Reading a book. Anything quiet, I like. Just being outdoors as much as possible,…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You…

— John Green

“Literary works are pieces of rhetoric as well as reports. They demand a peculiarly vigilant kind of reading, one which is alert…

— Terry Eagleton

I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at…

— Eric Kandel

Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press…

— Jenny Zhang

It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book…

— Steve Aylett

How do you get into magazines? How can you get on TV or in your local newspaper? What can you do so…

— Mark Edward

Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not…

— Penelope Lively

I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and…

— Pankaj Mishra

Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are…

— Norman Doidge

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

— Oprah Winfrey

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

— Norah Jones

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

— Jonathan Daniels

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

— Reynolds Price

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.”

— Daniel T. O'Hara

“i love reading and am always stuck in one labrinth of letters or other”

— Sarah Vowell

“Let your words glorify God and edify your hearers and then beautify your life.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.”

— Lorii Myers

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

— Lord Byron

I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well.

— Sarah Monette

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

— Dr. Seuss

“Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Don’t dwell on the mistakes of the past while the mistakes of the future are waiting for you”

— Ela Crain

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous