Reading Quotes · Page 99

As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.

— Alexandra Petri

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

— Henry David Thoreau

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

— Vladimir Nabokov

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.

— Jay Rayner

“Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.”

— Arlaina Tibensky

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

— Paulo Coelho

It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.

— Brandon Stanton

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

— Brad Henry

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of…

— Betty Smith

“I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words…

— Jeanette Winterson

I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't…

— Michael Dirda

I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out.…

— Bernie Sanders

There are also dozens and dozens of success stories; many couples have emailed me with their original posts. I love reading these…

— Sophie Blackall

“For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what…

— Joe Fassler

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it…

— Anna Todd

“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense)…

— Harold Brodkey

“By the time I got to high school, I had learned to be more cautious about revealing my dreams. I was reading—and…

— Téa Obreht

I like things to be really, really funny, or really, really dramatic. Those books are certainly the ones that grab me. I…

— Angie Harmon

Some findings reveal extroverts as more adept at reading nonverbal cues, and attribute this to the extrovert's greater interest and experience with…

— Laurie Helgoe

“When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith…

— Álvaro de Campos

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which…

— Thomas Jefferson

In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has…

— Neal Stephenson

The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I fear that many of us rush about from day to day taking for granted the Holy Scriptures. We scramble to honor…

— Carlos E. Asay

“Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end.”

— Peter Davis

I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter.

— Jon Pardi

I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!

— Cecily von Ziegesar

“Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.”

— Pierre Bayard

You cant start the new chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

— Anonymous

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

— Anonymous

I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes…

— Hozier

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

— Clarence Darrow

“Negative thoughts force us to take precautions; positive thoughts encourage us to take actions”

— S.E. SEVER

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Reading is a practice; good reading is a highly sophisticated practice. The practice has to be learnt.”

— Andrew Davison

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

— Fran Lebowitz

You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.

— Syd Barrett

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

— Jonathan Swift

If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part…

— Aamir Khan

You can only absorb so much information by reading a book before getting your hands dirty and learning the hard way.

— Bryan Baeumler