Reading Quotes · Page 163

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it…

— Zadie Smith

Video games just can't compare with the variety and intensity of reading.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I’m not. I just think you might be reading too much into a musical selection.”

— Gayle Forman

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

— Albert Einstein

A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain.

— Erik Larson

My parents made reading fun for me as a kid and that's stayed with me my whole life.

— Tom Fletcher

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is…

— Alan Bennett

Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of…

— David A. Bednar

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are…

— Samuel Johnson

I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have…

— Isabel Allende

“One reader is better than another in proportion as he is capable of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts…

— Mortimer J. Adler

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with…

— Jeanette Winterson

I grew up hearing, 'You're pretty for a black girl,' 'You speak well for a black girl...' I was really bookish. I…

— Jessica Williams

I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him…

— Anonymous

“I have my own e-reader, but I hardly ever use it. I need to fold down pages and flag passages with sticky…

— Lauren Morrill

“I've always thought that good teaching is about illumination. Sure, we teach things kids might not know, but a lot of the…

— R.J. Palacio

Later, I went one step further, by putting in some invented "historical" bits [into the Lincoln in the Bardo]. And reading those…

— George Saunders

There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a…

— Tim Burton

“Learning to read gave us a true oasis, salvation, in the same way that coming to know Jesus or the Buddha might…

— Anne Lamott

“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the…

— Gail Carson Levine

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

— Ang Lee

“Reading was my way of not thinking about maths. More than that (or do I mean less?), it was my way of…

— Ian McEwan

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

— Sarah Zettel

“He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays--cynical but hopeful.”

— Rose Macaulay

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

— Alice James

' Reading books is the most glorious, pastime that human mankind has been blessed with!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

— Daniel Silva

“My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of…

— Marilynne Robinson

Made by Hand is impossible to set down once you start reading it.

— James Gurney

I was kind of reading you know Judy Blume and stuff like that. But yeah, but I've since educated myself.

— Rachel McAdams

“If you think that I am mad now, then take away my books, and you'll find I've completely gone insane!”

— Jen Selinsky

I was a weird kid. I loved music, and I loved reading about God.

— Dion DiMucci

I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.

— Nat Hentoff

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

— Roger Rosenblatt