Reading Quotes · Page 151

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

— Mason Cooley

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

— Sara Gruen

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown…

— Samuel Johnson

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

— Richard Ford

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

— Alberto Manguel

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

— Michael Cunningham

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

— Oscar Wilde

“Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power. ”

— Michael Foot

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people…

— Madeleine Albright

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic.…

— Michael Kimmelman

“I love to write, and I love to read too, but that doesn't mean I like to write about reading - 'cause…

— Kevin Emerson

There were times I should have been completely emotionally available to my kids and I wasn't there, even for reading a book…

— Kerry Kennedy

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a…

— Roald Dahl

In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck…

— Francis Schaeffer

“If you have never said "Excuse me" to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting…

— Sherri Chasin Calvo

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully,…

— Monica Wood

You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these…

— Saul Bellow

Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to…

— Orson Scott Card

“Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly…

— Margaret Sartor

If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business…

— John Wilbanks

Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass…

— Wilford Woodruff

“Yet who reads to bring about an end, however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practise because they are good…

— Virginia Woolf

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles…

— Aldous Huxley

“A woman that is patient has the ability to endure provocation, pain, annoyance etc, with much calm and strength.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is…

— Gene Luen Yang

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

— Blaise Pascal

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

— Christopher Walken

Being lost in books has to be one of the best feelings it's like you can escape reality and live in your…

— Anonymous

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

— Dwight Yoakam

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

— Ray Bradbury

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

— Cardinal Richelieu

I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Maybe some people were destined to be alone. But, I reminded myself, you're never alone if you read.”

— Rebecca Raisin

One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.

— Anonymous

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the…

— James Fenton

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

— Lena Dunham

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Tap the caret to access the Reading Navigation toolbar. For more information, see Navigating a book. On the Home”

— Amazon