Reading Quotes · Page 164

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

— Nicholson Baker

“Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.”

— Kate Morton

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

— Bruno Tonioli

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

— Bob Edwards

“Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.”

— Robert Byrne

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

— Ann Voskamp

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

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Reading is one way I cope. I go somewhere else for a while and submerge myself in the character's problems instead of…

— Stephanie Lawton

Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much…

— Michael Specter

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new…

— Kirby Larson

Reading if a man has a crush on you can be to your advantage. If you know a guy likes you, the…

— Georgios Christodoulou

As far as characters are concerned, Alan Partridge makes me wet myself. I'm currently reading the book and have started talking like…

— Greg Davies

I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with…

— Jonathan Franzen

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really…

— Veronica Roth

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment…

— George Muller

“One of the less apparent but most profound consequences of domestic electric lighting was the encouragement of reading at home. Increased reading…

— David E. Kyvig

I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard…

— Flannery O'Connor

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was,…

— George R. R. Martin

I got good at trying to throw a voice on a character from the very beginning as opposed to like reading it…

— Kenan Thompson

Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony…

— James J. Kilpatrick

I was extremely lucky to get this project [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]. It was one of those things that I worked…

— John Krasinski

In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So…

— Trina Robbins

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

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

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

— Charlie Munger

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

— Anonymous

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

— Phil Hellmuth

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

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

— Malcom X

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

— Rakim

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

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

— Bea Cannon

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

— A.W. Tozer

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

— Jackie French

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

— Richard Flanagan