Reading Quotes · Page 156

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

— Austin Peck

“Sit here, so I may write you into a poem and make you eternal.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I like reading and writing, and I am a trained classical dancer.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo…

— Tyra Banks

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

— Salman Rushdie

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

— Annie Proulx

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

— Khaled Hosseini

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

— Jean Fritz

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to…

— Albert Einstein

My father was very fond of reading. It was something we did at our home. I don't think it fits the way…

— Twinkle Khanna

“We cannot prevail by our own might or strength, we need to plug on to the source of our strength so that…

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Stretching [and] yoga [are] very helpful. All of these things - they really do help. Good food and a lot of sleep.…

— Alice Walker

If I'm not moved from one spot to another, internally, while I'm witnessing it, reading it, consuming it, whatever, I don't know…

— Sarah Paulson

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has…

— Jim Mattis

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it -…

— Kevin Powers

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged,…

— Paulo Freire

“I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the…

— Patton Oswalt

It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about…

— Don McLean

The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation…

— Mihai Nadin

In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads…

— Jean-Henri Fabre

Mom's a writer, so I grew up reading scripts and I have a real respect for them and I know how much…

— Naomie Harris

In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and…

— Wole Soyinka

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

— John Cage

I think reading is important. Not just for children, but for adults across the board.

— Montel Vontavious Porter

I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

— Karla Souza

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

— Manuel Puig

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

— Bella Thorne

The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.

— John Wesley Harding

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

— Jami Attenberg

I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

— Dan Brown

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

— Charlie Munger

All-star lay downs are all about reading your opponents, trusting your instincts, and then making the right move.

— Phil Hellmuth

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

— Anonymous

“Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that [reading] opened.”

— Malcom X

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

— Ricky Gervais

I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

— Doug Liman

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I…

— Linda Ronstadt

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

— Bel Powley