Reading Quotes · Page 80

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

' No entertainment is so fugal, as reading, nor any Pleasure so Lasting!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

“We are defined not so much by what we're reading, as by what we're reading next.”

— Julia Keller

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

— John Lanchester

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

— Nancy M. Malone

A newspaper is ten times more interesting when somebody across the table is reading it?

— Anonymous

“I’m hanging on to your words like you’re my favorite book. And, I’m completely engrossed in every page of who you are.”

— Liz Newman

I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

— Penn Jillette

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much…

— John Locke

“She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments…

— Gary Shteyngart

I think for me I was in kindergarten, so I was very young and my teacher acknowledged that I was very dyslexic…

— A. J. Pritchard

So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear…

— Cornelia Funke

“Cirocco liked space, reading, and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but…

— John Varley

I am passionate about reading, for myself and for kids. Our future as a compassionate, productive, healthy society is rooted in our…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception,…

— Maryanne Wolf

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of…

— Marianne Williamson

If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of…

— Zia Haider Rahman

“Choosing a book is so gratifying, it’s worth dragging out the process, starting even before finishing the current one. As the final…

— Pamela Paul

A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content.…

— Grant Morrison

He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study,…

— Isaac Barrow

“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All…

— Pamela Paul

I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,'…

— Anthony Pilla

Did the nineteenth-century novelists create more generously than we do now? In a general reading of contemporary work, do you see a…

— Lore Segal

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

— Chloe Thurlow

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

— Paul Theroux

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

— Donalyn Miller

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

— Nick Hornby

I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

— Dawn Olivieri

I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must…

— Jane Swisshelm

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to…

— Margaret Atwood

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

— Jeremy Taylor

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

— Ramakrishna

[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

— Fran Lebowitz

“A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.”

— Julie Wright

“I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.”

— Santosh Kalwar

I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.

— Richelle Mead

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

— Thomas Carlyle

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

— Jeannette Walls

Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading.

— Jon Scieszka