Reading Quotes · Page 141

So there's this girl .. She's beautifull and she's reading this ... right now !

— Nathaniel Aveyro

“To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.

— Carl Bereiter

For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.

— Claire Messud

“... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.”

— Lisa Kleypas

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

— John Wesley

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

— Christine Keeler

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

— J. K. Rowling

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives…

— Richard Bach

The way one perceives a book and a film are totally different. You read a book in the privacy of your room.…

— Milos Forman

Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and…

— Northrop Frye

My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't…

— Beverly Cleary

“I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most…

— Nikita Gill

“The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an…

— Neil Postman

Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He…

— John Green

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I have grown up reading Marvel Comics and Marvel movies with their intricately woven storylines. It is fascinating to see how Marvel…

— Rana Daggubati

“If she were running through the rye, if she were headed towards the abyss, I would grab hold with every ounce of…

— David Levithan

“Do you know what it is?' [Toby] said thoughtfully. 'It's that they haven't had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder…

— Michelle Cooper

“Reading is never purely an act of isolation. When we read, we enter into a world of commonality, whether of language, story,…

— Andrew Piper

I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's…

— George R. R. Martin

“Reading is first and foremost non-reading. Even in the case of the most passionate lifelong readers, the act of picking up and…

— Pierre Bayard

A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals…

— Boris Pasternak

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two…

— Tory Burch

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

— Patrick O'Brian

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

— Paul Eldridge

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

— Malcolm Gladwell

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

— Kevin Nealon

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

— Oliver Goldsmith

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

— Ezra Pound

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

— John Cale

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

— George Eliot

Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.

— George F Will

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

— John Lanchester

I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic…

— Elin Hilderbrand

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

— Anonymous

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

— Rebecca Loos

“Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.”

— Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

— Emile Hirsch