Reading Quotes · Page 169

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be…

— Dakota Fanning

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I don't want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

Almost as soon as I started reading 'Erasure,' I wanted to adapt it.

— Cord Jefferson

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

— Patti Smith

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

— Ronald Reagan

When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.

— Stephen King

HOW ABOUT INSTEAD OF READING THIS TWEET U JUST GO SIT AND CONTEMPLATE THIS EARTH'S NATURAL BEAUTY

— Kool A.D

I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries.…

— David Foster Wallace

My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're…

— Dave Barry

We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know…

— George W. Bush

I'm the type of person where either my mind or body, or usually both, are always in motion. So I need outlets.…

— Cynthia Germanotta

Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent…

— Siri Hustvedt

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant…

— Michel de Montaigne

I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the…

— Charlie Munger

I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic'…

— Sophie Hunger

“…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own…

— Eliot Schrefer

If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but…

— Anna Brackett

He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And…

— Elizabeth Wein

Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight…

— Colm Toibin

In reading over the Constitutions of all fifty of our states, I discovered something which some of you may not know: there…

— D. James Kennedy

Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed…

— Anonymous

When I was a kid I wasn't allowed to watch horror movies at all. And actually, one of the genesis points for…

— Panos Cosmatos

In the early 1990s, my relatives in Patna, even those who had no interest in reading or writing, wanted Parker fountain pens.

— Amitava Kumar

There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him.

— Richard Usborne

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

— Anonymous

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

— Francine Prose

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

— Fay Godwin

“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Remember, when we're lost in a story, we're not passively reading about something that's happening to someone else.”

— Lisa Cron

“If reading is like breathing then writing is like the beat of a heart.”

— Laura Holford-Green

“If you only read books, how will you read the scripture inside you?”

— Tapan Ghosh

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you…

— Judith Martin

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

— Nelson Mandela

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.

— Billy Graham

Reading Orwell's 'Road to Wigan Pier'. I think every policy person should read it. Prescient, gnarly, ugly, and moving.

— Alison Pill

“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”

— Don Roff

Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it?

— Greg Proops

I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.

— Jim James