Reading Quotes · Page 102

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

— Bruno Tonioli

“Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.”

— Kate Morton

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

— Nicholson Baker

The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.

— Paul Halmos

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

— Anonymous

I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'

— Maika Monroe

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is…

— W. Somerset Maugham

There are three types of men; those who learn by reading, those who learn by watching, and those who pee on the…

— Anonymous

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d…

— Neil Gaiman

I teach fiction in my workshops, and some of the readings could be classified as horror. For example, 'House Taken Over,' a…

— Laura van den Berg

I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music,…

— Wynonna Judd

The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and…

— Maurice Francis Egan

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it…

— Janna Malamud Smith

“Reading, by its very nature, is an admission of defeat, a ritual of self-humiliation: it shows that you believe other lives are…

— Rose Vane

I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction.…

— James Patterson

When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to…

— Candace Bushnell

When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are…

— Robert Dessaix

The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch…

— George M. Whitesides

If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to…

— Joan Aiken

“When writing, there are some scenes that are emotionally overwhelming. They completely overcome the author, and only when they do this can…

— Dean F. Wilson

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash. And there's occasional things that can't be solved with cash, which become…

— Danny Boyle

There may be rhetoric about the socially constructed nature of Western science, but wherever it matters, there is no alternative. There are…

— Simon Blackburn

“Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to…

— Rhea Perlman

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog…

— Craig Ferguson

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it…

— Peter Ustinov

“Reading gives your knowledge and knowledge is power, which helps you live your life better”

— Anonymous

“Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that [reading] opened.”

— Malcom X

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

— Ricky Gervais

I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

— Doug Liman

All-star lay downs are all about reading your opponents, trusting your instincts, and then making the right move.

— Phil Hellmuth

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

— Anonymous

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

— Charlie Munger

The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.

— John Wesley Harding

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

— Jami Attenberg

I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

— Dan Brown

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

— Manuel Puig

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

— Bella Thorne

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

— Brian Grazer