Reading Quotes · Page 159

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

— Sara Gruen

My reading ability is that of an 11-year-old. I've had a test. I was alright with numbers, but not reading.

— Jay Blades

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown…

— Samuel Johnson

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.

— Richard Ford

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

— Alberto Manguel

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

— Michael Cunningham

“A woman that is patient has the ability to endure provocation, pain, annoyance etc, with much calm and strength.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power. ”

— Michael Foot

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography…

— Bruce Schneier

I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before…

— Lea Seydoux

After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously…

— Cecil B. DeMille

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning…

— Guy Claxton

“I suck the words word-dry to me, assimilated orderly at breakeye speed still hard and harder softer then line-lined book-dry ‘til not…

— Chila Woychik

Pace is in the mind many times. You've got physical pace but pace in thinking, in reading the game. That's always been…

— Eidur Gudjohnsen

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

— Sarah Fielding

“I'm looking forward tomorrow to a peaceful Sunday spent in bed with Churchill's 'Life Of Marlborough'. Funny that he should be Prime…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Whenever I'm doing any film, there's always three different things. There's the script, which is really just a blueprint. And then, you…

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

“Chicken Soup for the Soul". You've heard of these books, am I right? We've all heard of them. But I wonder if…

— Marisa de los Santos

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and…

— Bennett Cerf

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through…

— Étienne Gilson

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the…

— Chester Brown

Most of Emily's backstory is written out between New Moon and Eclipse. I'm reading them as we're shooting the films. I haven't…

— Tinsel Korey

I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going…

— Neil Gaiman

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

— Oscar Wilde

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is…

— Gene Luen Yang

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

— Blaise Pascal

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

— Orson Scott Card

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

— Ray Bradbury

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

— Vicki Myron

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

— Esther Meynell

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

— Jim James

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

— Amanda Peet

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.

— Nancy Horan

“The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same…

— Roland Barthes

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the…

— Virginia Woolf

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.”

— Sylvain Tesson

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly

— Jen Knox