Reading Quotes · Page 171

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.

— Walter Mosley

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

— Gary Shteyngart

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

— Tommy Hilfiger

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

— Derrick Bell

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

— Adolf Hitler

I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things.

— Chris Diamantopoulos

“I've never known any trouble that an hour's worth of reading didn't assauge”

— Baron De Montesquieu Charles De Secondat

“The amount of excitement when you say hi will be paid back when you say bye!”

— S.E. SEVER

I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group…

— Margaret Atwood

If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very…

— Leonore Fleischer

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think…

— Meg Tilly

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the…

— Antony Beevor

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're…

— Margaret Atwood

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et…

— Helen Oyeyemi

The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach…

— Jane Cleland

“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own…

— Richard Flanagan

No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted.…

— Jim Trelease

The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his…

— Anonymous

“From Tudor to eighteenth-century England, there are many instances of women writers with no place or room of their own. The life-story…

— Hermione Lee

I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that…

— Ben Stein

Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument,…

— Stephen Fry

But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever…

— Rhys Ifans

“People don't read anymore. And, when they do, they don't read books like this one, but instead read books that depress them,…

— Brandon Sanderson

“At the age of ninety-two, James spent months hunched over the kitchen table, learning the alphabet, practicing his signature, and slowly progressing…

— Linda Kaplan Thaler

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.”

— Carew Papritz

“Reading without eating food is like Person standing in a war without weapons.”

— Anonymous

I've learned more about animals just by reading to my kid than I ever did studying.

— James Holzhauer

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

— Gabriel Campisi

“I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each…

— Nicole Krauss

I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip.

— Klaus Teuber

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

— Maynard James Keenan

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

— Robert B. Parker

“When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.”

— Chloe Thurlow

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

— Donalyn Miller

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

— Paul Theroux

Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.

— Nick Hornby

“You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.”

— Nancy M. Malone

I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.

— John Lanchester