Reading Quotes · Page 86

My favorite room in my house is my bedroom; my private space where I can go to do my reading or listen…

— Shirley Ballas

I didn't have the best time at primary school so reading a book was my way of getting away from whatever was…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and…

— Hojo Soun

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.

— Raymond Moody

“Books for general reading always smell badly. The odor of common people hangs about them.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order.”

— Truman Capote

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

— Justin Long

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

— Paulo Coelho

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less…

— George Eliot

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world,…

— Nora Roberts

I've tried to slow this down but realized that my natural reading rhythm is freakishly fast when an author friend asked me…

— Sarah Weinman

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a…

— Imogen Heap

I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to…

— Patricia MacLachlan

Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had…

— Edward St Aubyn

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy…

— Nikola Tesla

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So…

— Christopher Hampton

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the…

— Friedrich Schiller

“Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular…

— M.R. James

It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or…

— Markus Zusak

“Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape and rich…

— Chris Offutt

“For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the…

— Diane Schoemperlen

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be…

— Mark Twain

And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from…

— Edward Hirsch

“As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next…

— Mike Schmidt

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

— Jodie Whittaker

Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.

— Arfa Karim

Reading English novels I always adore the ability to write without fear about inner psychological things that are so delicate.

— Olga Tokarczuk

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

— Robert Burchfield

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.

— Edie Falco

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

— David Bailey

My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.

— Diana Gabaldon

If I have a free day, sometimes I'm just reading scripts all day. They pile up.

— Julia Fox

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

— R. A. Salvatore

Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.

— J. C. Ryle

Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

— Annie Dillard

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

— Lin Yutang

“Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

— Rick Moody

I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got…

— Jay-Z