Reading Quotes · Page 107

“In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.”

— Jules Verne

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

— Julia Glass

“Owning a book is a third of the goal. The others are actually reading it and applying it.”

— Israel Wayne

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

— Douglas Adams

“Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.”

— Muna Adnan Naqi

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in…

— Andre Maurois

I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a…

— Miriam Margolyes

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

— Francine Prose

“Just go on reading, as well as you can, and be sure that when the children get the thrill of the story,…

— Anonymous

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just…

— Nick Hornby

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the…

— Terry Pratchett

I learned by reading an awful lot and by writing a half a million words of stuff nobody would do anything with…

— Harry Turtledove

We have seen too many arbitrary Strasbourg diktats based on the whims of European judges - from prisoner voting to blocking deportation…

— Dominic Raab

“By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time…

— Frederick Lenz

Even amid the shock of my diagnosis, I held onto the hope that I'd be able to make the most of my…

— Suleika Jaouad

I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure…

— Stan Lee

“Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the…

— Edward Gorey

“Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline…

— Gustave Flaubert

I'm frustrated with the fact that it's harder to remember things now because I can so easily find them on the Web.…

— Tricia Rhodes

“Above all, readers want useful information, whether from a road sign or an investment guide. This motive is not completely absent even…

— Alice W. Flaherty

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise. Whereas now when people come up to me, they say, "I love the bookstore"…

— Ann Patchett

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually…

— John Quincy Adams

It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There…

— Camille Paglia

There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him.

— Richard Usborne

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

— Anonymous

In the early 1990s, my relatives in Patna, even those who had no interest in reading or writing, wanted Parker fountain pens.

— Amitava Kumar

HOW ABOUT INSTEAD OF READING THIS TWEET U JUST GO SIT AND CONTEMPLATE THIS EARTH'S NATURAL BEAUTY

— Kool A.D

When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.

— Stephen King

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

— Ronald Reagan

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

— Patti Smith

Almost as soon as I started reading 'Erasure,' I wanted to adapt it.

— Cord Jefferson

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I don't want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

Reading Orwell's 'Road to Wigan Pier'. I think every policy person should read it. Prescient, gnarly, ugly, and moving.

— Alison Pill

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.

— Billy Graham

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

— Nelson Mandela

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you…

— Judith Martin

“If you only read books, how will you read the scripture inside you?”

— Tapan Ghosh

“If reading is like breathing then writing is like the beat of a heart.”

— Laura Holford-Green