Reading Quotes · Page 79

One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program.

— John F. Kennedy

I know the action in the street is excitin' But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

— Klaus Teuber

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

— Robert B. Parker

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

— Maynard James Keenan

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

For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was…

— Alberto Manguel

I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me,…

— Michael Dirda

You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better…

— Jim Gaffigan

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative…

— Jesmyn Ward

I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics,…

— Patrick deWitt

“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for…

— Paul De Man

“The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than…

— Graham Greene

History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there…

— Titus Kaphar

It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get…

— Joan Chen

“books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -…

— Will Schwalbe

If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big…

— James Patterson

I still have a struggle reading (dyslexia, fh) and so I don't read much.. ..Probably the only reason I'm painter is because…

— Robert Rauschenberg

It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand…

— Marianne Moore

You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When you have so many projects to nurture, one or two get real excited and raise their hands. The reaction from it…

— Frank Wildhorn

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— James Holzhauer

“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

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

— Gabriel Campisi

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

— Derrick Bell

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

— Tommy Hilfiger

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

The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more…

— Gore Vidal

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

— John Wesley

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

— Bruce Dickinson

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

— William Shakespeare

“The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story”

— Brandt Legg

The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.

— James Merritt