Reading Quotes · Page 83

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

— David Starkey

You've been reading Gordan's book again, haven't you?" "It's a white-knuckle roller-coaster ride," she mumbled.

— Derek Landy

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

— Joseph Delaney

I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years.

— Nick Yarris

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

— Larry David

I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it.

— Paul S. Kemp

I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.

— Petra Collins

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction…

— Syd

I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I…

— Isaac Asimov

When I wrote my first album, I was reading Joseph Campbell - he's this philosopher who writes about mythology. That inspired the…

— MO

“I have no cause to love Mr. Norrell- far from it. But I know this about him: he is a magician first…

— Susanna Clarke

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could…

— J. B. Priestley

Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout…

— Landon Donovan

“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read." [As quoted…

— George Bernard Shaw

Even as a child, I had walked down streets reading novels, waiting for my feet to get stuck in tar as I…

— Alissa Quart

People nowadays talk about issues as if they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they read and echo it without…

— Suzy Kassem

That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I…

— Amy Grant

I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one...…

— James Clavell

But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was…

— Raul Hilberg

“ The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became…

— Wallace Stevens

Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I think that if Americans put critical thought, which I think they will, into what they are reading in these newspapers and…

— Reince Priebus

The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you…

— B. C. Forbes

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

— Franz Kafka

“I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.”

— John Fowles

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

— Conrad Aiken

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

— Jim Harrison

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

— Oliver DeMille

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

— Seneca the Younger

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”

— Steven Spielberg

To be a true scientist, is to begin reading the book from the end.

— Savannah Yates

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

— Tara Bray Smith

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

— Roald Dahl

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

— Kelley Armstrong

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world…

— Billy Graham

I spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying.

— Lauren Mayberry

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

— Lily Allen

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

— James Patterson