Reading Quotes · Page 153

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

— Robert Littell

“A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities; it keeps your avatar strong.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It plumps up your thinker and fills up your heart. And where you end up is not where you start.”

— Brynne Barnes

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

— Anne Frank

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

— Anonymous

I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.

— Courtney Barnett

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

— Jane Birkin

Making reading an enjoyable activity for children is a challenge. So I ensure that I write in a way that is fun…

— Ken Spillman

When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I…

— Les Miles

Reading aloud could be humiliating, I was shy about doing it. Bear in mind I failed my English GCSE and A levels,…

— Ben Fogle

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping…

— Carmela Dutra

If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading…

— Beverly Cleary

“For years I have been coming to this library, and I explore it volume by volume, shelf by shelf, but I could…

— Italo Calvino

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda…

— Jorge Luis Borges

If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally,…

— Oscar Hijuelos

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each…

— Julie Andrews

“The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice…

— Susan Orlean

I felt so liberated when I first saw Charles Mee’s 'The Glory of the World' at BAM play, because for me this…

— Will Oldham

You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior,…

— John Waters

It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ.…

— Anonymous

“Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo . Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin . Burn it.…

— Ray Bradbury

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

— Anonymous

Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone.

— Donalyn Miller

“When I flick through a family album, I see that people don’t die, they just become photographs”

— S.E. SEVER

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

— Ray Bradbury

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

— John Dryden

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

— Anna Quindlen

“If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.”

— Alan Clark

I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing 'Beth.' He actually talked about zombies.

— Jeff Baena

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Video games just can't compare with the variety and intensity of reading.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it…

— Zadie Smith

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

— Albert Einstein

“I’m not. I just think you might be reading too much into a musical selection.”

— Gayle Forman

A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain.

— Erik Larson