Reading Quotes · Page 146

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

— David Foster Wallace

I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

— Fran Lebowitz

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

— Martin Luther

“You know your book is good when you have to put it down just so you can breathe.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

— Alexander Pope

Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading.

— Horace

“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Reproduction: Distinguished leaders impress, inspire and invest in other leaders.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional…

— Thomas C. Foster

“For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the…

— Virginia Woolf

Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers…

— Diablo Cody

I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate…

— Witold Gombrowicz

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything…

— John Gould

“If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things…

— Benjamin Franklin

'Star Wars' is something that I've been a fan of since I was a kid - I played all the video games…

— Samuel Witwer

Short of the dishonest, the illegal, and the cruel, there's only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me:…

— Celeste Ng

Young people often aren't in a position to write checks to charities. But there are two things they can do that are…

— Nicholas Kristof

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and…

— Rob Thomas

“It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to…

— William Faulkner

It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and…

— William Goldman

It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective…

— Etgar Keret

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of…

— Deborah Smith

When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I…

— Utah Phillips

“I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks. Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

What your reading is a bunch of lines that may mean something to you even though they shouldn't.

— Kenaan

“Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”

— Neil Armstrong

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

— Coco Chanel

“... to lend a book is an incitement to theft." A Reader on Reading p. 281”

— Alberto Manguel

“Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.”

— Robert Arger

“There exists in some individuals more than enough talents, expertises, or greatness for more than three people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.

— Jay Asher

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

— Jerry Spinelli

“His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.”

— Jane Austen

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

— Nancy Banks-Smith

There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences.

— Ellen Ullman

I'm not even reading about the U.S. election, I'm just totally involved in the Canadian one.

— Samantha Bee

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

— Chantal Sutherland

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

— Neil Jackson

“It's easy to give when you have more than enough, but it’s easier to feel you have enough when you give”

— Ela Crain