Reading Quotes · Page 82

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

— Alejandro Zambra

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

— Nina Jacobson

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

— P. D. James

“No matter how many books you own, you can never own enough. Reading books is the best addiction anyone can have.”

— Stackpole Books

“Living on our planet requires a lot of imagination. Reading fosters it.”

— V.R. Duin

“She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?”

— Austin Wright

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

— C. S. Lewis

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

— Roald Dahl

“What traitors books can be! you think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and…

— Ray Bradbury

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks…

— Samuel Johnson

The last loan spell, at Reading, was the one I enjoyed most. The manager, Jose Gomes, put a lot of faith in…

— Emiliano Martinez

When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the…

— Ali Banisadr

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only…

— Ben Okri

“In the books I find the thrum of everything unsayable. The characters weep the way I want to, love the way I…

— Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

— Jenna Bush

I'm incredibly lazy. On a day off, I'm more likely to be sitting on our sofa reading a book than out and…

— Phoebe Fox

I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was…

— Simon Schama

Through reading the scriptures I realized there was a purpose for my life, that I was created for a reason, that I…

— Christian Hosoi

“For a writer it was perhaps most important not to write, but to read. Read as much as you can because in…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers,…

— Stephen King

The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John…

— Terence McKenna

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes…

— Garth Stein

I like to keep at my craft. I like to keep reading scripts, whether I'm in it or not because of the…

— Ernest Borgnine

“It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited…

— Richard Russo

I use a system called Vector Green Reading, which applies science to the green reads.

— Bryson DeChambeau

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

— Satya Nadella

“The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them.”

— Ian Campbell Ross

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.

— Sjon

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

— John Bayley

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

— Anton Yelchin

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

— Robert Downey Sr

“Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.”

— Amit Kalantri

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading: Henny Youngman. He was a wise man who invented beer

— Plato

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

Here I am reading quotes with only one person on my mind the whole time.

— Mikaela Lingat

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

— Elias Canetti

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

— Toni Morrison

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking…

— Dylan Thomas

I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history.

— Sheamus