Reading Quotes · Page 154

My parents made reading fun for me as a kid and that's stayed with me my whole life.

— Tom Fletcher

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

— Ang Lee

“Reading was my way of not thinking about maths. More than that (or do I mean less?), it was my way of…

— Ian McEwan

“He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays--cynical but hopeful.”

— Rose Macaulay

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

— Sarah Zettel

' Reading books is the most glorious, pastime that human mankind has been blessed with!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

— Alice James

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert…

— Tony Harrison

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about…

— Max Irons

“Real reading is reflex action; the born reader reads as unconsciously as he breathes; and, to carry the analogy a degree farther,…

— Edith Wharton

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading…

— Stephen King

It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I…

— Gary Soto

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie…

— Bel Kaufman

“If someone where playing tennis you wouldn't walk onto the court and begin to have a conversion with them, likewise I think…

— Ian McEwan

“A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go​, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and…

— Donalyn Miller

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation…

— Anonymous

“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book…

— Anonymous

Reading about utopianism, and eventually creating characters with their own utopian ambitions, was the way I learned to live with being a…

— Lauren Groff

We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven…

— Brigham Young

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is…

— Jo Brand

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

— Daniel Silva

“My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of…

— Marilynne Robinson

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

— Harold Bloom

“We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.”

— N.D. Wilson

There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

— Leo Rosten

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

— James Patterson

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

— Charles E. McKenzie

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

— Julia Quinn

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

— Michelle Williams

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and…

— Mizuki Nomura

“Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.”

— David Burr Gerrard

I've tried to tell my kids: If you're reading something engrossing, you'll never, ever be bored.

— Elin Hilderbrand

In reading, you become these characters that are different from you.

— Torrey Peters

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

— James W. Loewen