Reading Quotes · Page 78

I just wanna be rich enough to have Morgan Freeman read me bedtime stories.

— Anonymous

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want…

— Jennifer Egan

I either like reading fun war-based sci-fi, books about the lives of chefs, or dry historical non-fiction.

— Michael Seibel

“Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are.”

— Mason Cooley

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

— Gary Shteyngart

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

— Walter Mosley

We get used to things, and we like reading the way we're used to reading.

— Michael Bierut

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid…

— Nouriel Roubini

I came home one day and Nick was in his bedroom reading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and the tears were just flowing…

— David Sheff

[People who have left the ISIS] say that there comes a moment when the inconsistencies and apparent hypocrisies of their sheikh lets…

— Rukmini Maria Callimachi

“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average…

— George Orwell

Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine -…

— Martin Gardner

I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever…

— Anne Lamott

As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started…

— Jed Mercurio

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was…

— Larry Gagosian

You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous…

— Anonymous

“[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30…

— Haruki Murakami

It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon…

— Cleveland Amory

“The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and…

— Brent weeks

“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience…

— The Economist

If a person is constantly evolving, constantly reading new material and being exposed to new material and growing in life, then you're…

— Clint Eastwood

Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather…

— J. C. Ryle

I guess I always like being asked questions about influence or inspiration, like, "What are you reading? Who are your heroes? Is…

— Zoe Kazan

“...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.”

— Jo Baker

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

— Sheryl Sandberg

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

— Barbara Corcoran

“Exploring the layers of the earth is like reading the pages of a book.”

— James W. Mercer

“Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!”

— Munia Khan

“Life is like a mute tutor: it teaches by showing what we call fate”

— S.E. SEVER

If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

— Anonymous

“If you aren’t affected somehow, even in the slightest bit, you aren’t reading the right book.”

— Anna Todd

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf…

— Kelly Link

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

— Greg Proops

“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

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

— Maya Angelou

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

— Jim James

You can't judge an album by a single song; it's like judging a book by only reading a single chapter.

— Trevor Rabin

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

— Dr. Seuss

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

— Ben Mezrich