Reading Quotes · Page 77

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be…

— George Gissing

“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

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

My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my…

— Debra Messing

I've gotten to try on voices very different than my own, and I've become much more aware of structure than ever before.…

— Achy Obejas

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish…

— Adrian Desmond

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to…

— Buzz Aldrin

“The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of…

— A.E. Housman

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite…

— Charles Lamb

TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of…

— Nic Pizzolatto

The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed…

— Lynn Coady

Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for…

— Nick Hornby

“A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint.…

— Henry David Thoreau

When good things come in, my agent calls or sends me the script. But I allow them to sort through the offers…

— Megan Fox

Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor…

— Valeria Luiselli

“They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing…

— Gloria Goldreich

Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over…

— Paul Saffo

“Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they're exacerbated and brought to…

— Levi Grossman

“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

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

— Amitava Kumar

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

— Anonymous

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

— Richard Usborne

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

— Francine Prose

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

The cover, thickness and knowledge in a book often has little value, the secret is to know when to turn the page.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures…

— Anthony Trollope

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

— Katherine Paterson