Reading Quotes · Page 105

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person…

— Cornelia Funke

Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that.

— Mat Kearney

“When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again. -…

— William Stafford

“Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.”

— Carla H. Krueger

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

— Debbie Reynolds

“Don't turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

“He nods, his eyes on her like he's reading a book he's just getting to the end of and can't be interrupted.”

— Alden Bell

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

— Siegfried Sassoon

“Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and…

— Tessa Jowell

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things…

— Victoria Chang

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading.…

— Kameron Hurley

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going…

— Swami Vivekananda

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization,…

— Laura E. Richards

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading…

— Anonymous

Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit…

— Pamela Druckerman

Thank God the Internet didn't exist when I was 15, 16. I knew people were tearing me apart, but my God, if…

— Emma Forrest

Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by…

— Martha Minow

The Drama Years is filled with heart-stirring stories, just-been-there advice from recent teens and practical, actionable tips for parents. It's full of…

— Anonymous

With a population of 1.4 billion, China is a lucrative market. But getting into that market isn't cheap. At best, the price…

— Ben Sasse

I first emailed Tao Lin a story I wrote about the experience of losing my virginity sometime in April 2011. He didn't…

— Marie Calloway

“I have noticed that when people tell their own stories, often it has less to do with wanting to communicate an idea…

— Lydia Minatoya

I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you…

— Fred Wilson

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the…

— Nick Cave

I'm an English teacher, so I'm used to reading and I'm used to reading out loud.

— Jill Biden

You can never start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

— HaziqSyahir

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

— Casey Kasem

“Create your world with God's Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of…

— Rufus Choate

Why Bother Reading Books? We Have EMINEM He Can Read a Whole Story In 4 Minutes.

— Anonymous

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were…

— Edward Hirsch

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

— Steve Lopez

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

— Adora Svitak

I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords.

— Alberto Manguel

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

— Louise Doughty

Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading.

— Ainsley Earhardt

“I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.”

— Jen Selinsky

There is a big difference between he who reads just because he knows how to read and he who does understand what…

— Wagner T Matioli

If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth…

— David Starkey

“Even in the hottest fire there's a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.”

— Ivan Stoikov - Allan Bard