Reading Quotes · Page 95

I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details.

— Karin Slaughter

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

— Zane Grey

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make…

— Kate DiCamillo

“No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.”

— Gladys Hunt

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

— Henry Mintzberg

Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.

— Philip Larkin

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

— Anne Michaels

I love putting on a candle, reading a book, and just taking a second for me.

— Jessica Long

My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get…

— Salman Rushdie

Gandhi seldom taught with the help of books. He did not want to paralyse the pupils' intellect by loading it with book…

— Anonymous

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains…

— Julian Barnes

I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your…

— Tom Peters

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common…

— LeVar Burton

I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown…

— Adrian Tomine

When I started reading George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, it was the late 1990s and obsessing over…

— Ross Douthat

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses…

— Albert Einstein

“We inhabit a world so inundated with composite pictorial-verbal forms [...] and with the technology for the rapid, cheap production of words…

— Anonymous

I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know…

— Michael Madsen

For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience…

— Paulo Coelho

“Roger left the cricket stumps and they went into the drawing room. Grandpapa, at the first suggestion of reading aloud, had disappeared,…

— Daphne du Maurier

“They must talk to each other directly, Ender, mind to mind. What one thinks, another can also think; what one remembers, another…

— Orson Scott Card

“When I stepped into the brown-tiled entryway of the Kentwood Public Library, the sunlight flowing down on me from the high windows,…

— Bich Minh Nguyen

Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need…

— John Milton

The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited…

— Shirley M. Tilghman

I prepare for auditions differently depending on what it is - what the material is, what the project is, who I'm reading…

— Matt Lanter

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

— Neil Gaiman

Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them.

— Michael Burry

“Closed books are like closed eyes—you must open them to see anything.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing.”

— Anthony Liccione

“I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by…

— Gregory Maguire

“In the morning, nurture your mind with good books. At night, write yours.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on…

— Donnie Wahlberg

Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.

— Bill Gates

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

— Dorothy Day

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

I never liked reading books or reading anything - I'm a pictures guy.

— Denny Hamlin

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“...all readings are provisional, and that maybe we read heroines for what we need from them at the time.”

— Samantha Ellis

No one is saved by mere talk and speech, nor by reading loads of books.

— Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

— Voltaire