Reading Quotes · Page 157

When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.

— Rakim

“Like reading, writing takes me to places I would otherwise never be able to go.”

— Bea Cannon

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

— Jackie French

“To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground.”

— A.W. Tozer

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

— N. T. Wright

In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.

— Richard Flanagan

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

— Julie Kagawa

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

— Brian Grazer

A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the…

— Michel Faber

“Truths are dangerous," he said. "Then why are you writing them in a book?" "To catch them between the pages," said Teddy,…

— Kristin Cashore

Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then…

— Tamora Pierce

If I'm reading about a river or the trees or the wind blowing or the stars at night, if you can hear…

— Julie Andrews

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't…

— Carrie Fisher

“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say…

— Jeanette Winterson

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list.…

— Dave Eggers

After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference…

— Joseph Parker

“Wuthering Heights, however it may appear in retrospect, demands a reading of the utmost intensity, the feeling present in the writing seems…

— Ian Gregor

“I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I…

— Bill Hicks

Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we…

— Maryanne Wolf

I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts…

— Cheyenne Jackson

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my…

— Mary Oliver

The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think…

— David Plotz

I read "Women Heroes of World War I" and was absolutely astonished. When we imagine women serving in the First World War,…

— Kate Quinn

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

— Emmanuel Macron

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

— Bob Dylan

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

— Joseph P. Farrell

“I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.”

— Markus Zusak

“I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an…

— Rosamund Hodge

“That is dreamreading. As the birds leave south or north in their season, the Dreamreader has dreams to read.”

— Haruki Murakami

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Books are like batteries, he says. And you grow a little stronger by reading them, surrounding yourself with them.”

— Benjamin Percy

However, a rich print environment helps only when more reading is done.

— Stephen D. Krashen

“Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it…

— Peter Ustinov

“Reading gives your knowledge and knowledge is power, which helps you live your life better”

— Anonymous

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'

— Maika Monroe

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is…

— W. Somerset Maugham

There are three types of men; those who learn by reading, those who learn by watching, and those who pee on the…

— Anonymous

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog…

— Craig Ferguson