Reading Quotes · Page 160

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

— Joe Strummer

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

— Umberto Eco

We make pretty uninteresting reading, I suppose. I mean, we're just another group making records, aren't we?

— Elizabeth Fraser

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

— Steven Wright

I remember reading 'Catcher in the Rye,' but I don't think I got it.

— Leon Russell

I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous.

— Dervla Kirwan

It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.

— Lynn Coady

I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.

— Karin Slaughter

...by regularly reading business newspaper and magazines I am exposed to an enormous amount of material at the micro level.. I find…

— Charlie Munger

“Books nurtured, guided and comforted me as a child. Books were my substitute parents and teachers, when the adults in my life…

— Anthon St. Maarten

'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom…

— Jessye Norman

There's things that you can learn by being in the room with people that's different than talking to them over the phone…

— Lori Lightfoot

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want…

— Piers Anthony

Sometimes the reading is related to something I do, sometimes it's not. I feel like every time I read something, there's a…

— eL Seed

I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I…

— Carolyn Wells

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.…

— Rita Dove

I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write…

— Michio Kaku

I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is…

— A.M. Homes

“After this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He made me describe everything.…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold,…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html)

— Michael C. Burgess

Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from…

— Lewis Buzbee

I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and…

— Mary Oliver

If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just…

— Pankaj Mishra

“I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.”

— Roxane Gay

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

— Christian Bauman

“Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom.”

— Patience Johnson

“Without a doubt, I must read, all the books I've read about. See the artworks hung on hooks, that I have only,…

— Lang Leav

“A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities; it keeps your avatar strong.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

— Robert Littell

“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.

— Courtney Barnett

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

— Anonymous

“It plumps up your thinker and fills up your heart. And where you end up is not where you start.”

— Brynne Barnes

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

— Anne Frank

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

— Anonymous

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

— Jane Birkin

Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone.

— Donalyn Miller

“When I flick through a family album, I see that people don’t die, they just become photographs”

— S.E. SEVER

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

— Ray Bradbury