Reading Quotes · Page 92

I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.

— Colin Baker

“The moment I started reading, I was no longer in my bedroom, no longer sad, no longer even myself.”

— Katrina Leno

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

— Holbrook Jackson

“Happiness doesn’t live in expensive houses; it passes by simple routes”

— Ela Crain

Beware of learning the art of face reading, for written on every face are the conditions of heart

— Mak_786

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

— Moses Hadas

I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

— Angelina Jolie

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of…

— Carl Sagan

You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an…

— Bill Watterson

I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I…

— Lois Lowry

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Welcome young poet, in here you are free to follow your star to where you should be. That door of the library…

— Bernard Kops

Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into…

— Peter Lindbergh

I've always been very grateful that enough people have enjoyed reading what I've written that I've been able to pursue writing professionally.

— Christopher Paolini

“She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of…

— Pat Conroy

A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second…

— Haruki Murakami

“As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were the most loving and trustworthy things in…

— Sherman Alexie

“Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape…

— Donalyn Miller

Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon…

— Julian Barnes

Whereas if you're a reader, you can enter other people's minds, you can be in direct contact with people who may have…

— Lucy Hughes-Hallett

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of…

— Joseph Addison

My fiancé, you see, belonged to another religion. He was a Parsi. And this was something nobody could stand - all of…

— Indira Gandhi

I appreciate your giving my book -- and in no small way, me -- a chance. To thank you, I really wanted…

— Ellen DeGeneres

“The bible is an instruction book you don't want to skip reading.”

— Amanda Penland

I will sign every contract Arsenal put in front of me without reading it.

— Tony Adams

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.

— Sol Stein

“If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.”

— Murray Pura

“There is a book for every walk of life. No matter the age, race, or gender there is something that will appeal…

— Carmela Dutra

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

— David Mitchell

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

— David Duchovny

“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

— Stephen Fry

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

— David Hume

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very…

— Iain Banks

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

— Aerin Lauder

thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.

— Isaac Watts

I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.

— Marie Rutkoski

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

— Haruki Murakami