Reading Quotes · Page 155

“I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.”

— Harley King

You can't start the next chapter in your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

— Nishan Panwar

I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

— Natalie Dormer

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

— Benjamin Franklin

“I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.”

— Avi Steinberg

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

— Daniel Pinkwater

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

— Anna Quindlen

In a reading, I communicate what I see, what I hear and what I feel. It's as simple as that.

— Tyler Henry

My cottage is on Lake Huron and it's always nice to have the chance to get away and hear the waves crashing…

— Tessa Virtue

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident…

— Agnes Repplier

I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully…

— Kim Harrison

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public…

— Oscar Wilde

Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your…

— Randy West

“(She) could have read for hours, except that recently she had discovered holes and crevices between the words which she immediately had…

— Gerhard Amanshauser

I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I…

— Jake Epstein

I have to say: We were looking at all of Native American actors, who mostly all work under one casting director. And…

— Kelly Reichardt

Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's…

— Stephen King

Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul…

— Wayne Dyer

Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away,…

— Ray Bradbury

Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There…

— Marcel Proust

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When I started out, I didn't have any writing routine, I had a job. Writing was a hobby I indulged in over…

— Neal Asher

I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a…

— Daniel H. Wilson

I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a…

— Daniel Olivas

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

— Martial

Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true.

— Richard G. Scott

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

— Anonymous

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Reading is a sojourn that takes you round the world without having to move your feet.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

— Mason Cooley

“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.”

— Roman Payne

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

— Jimmy Buffett

I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.

— Laila Lalami

“Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,”

— Noam Chomsky

The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.

— J. K. Rowling

The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.

— Michael Fullan

We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.

— Charlaine Harris

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

— Tom Baker

For many people, extended reading sessions on an LCD display cause eyestrain.

— Jeff Bezos

“Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu