Reading Quotes · Page 109

I just wanna be rich enough to have Morgan Freeman read me bedtime stories.

— Anonymous

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

— Katherine Paterson

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures…

— Anthony Trollope

The cover, thickness and knowledge in a book often has little value, the secret is to know when to turn the page.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

— Barbara Corcoran

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

— Sheryl Sandberg

“...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.”

— Jo Baker

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The danger of the blogosphere is reading only those you agree with. While there are right-wing blogs that are entertaining freak shows,…

— Molly Ivins

In New York, you are forced into having very public lives and observing all types of people, what they sound like, what…

— Nick Kroll

“If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for…

— Thomas à Kempis

My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where…

— Erik Larson

“Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in…

— Pierre Bayard

It's very dangerous to pretend to be open-minded when you're the exact opposite. I think feminists are only making it worse by…

— Dave Sim

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going…

— Gary Ross

“But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading…

— John Green

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“In high school, we barely brushed against Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or any of the other so-unserious writers who delight…

— Bob Harris

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding…

— Horace Mann

Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can…

— Herman Melville

“There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we…

— Charles Kingsley

I only worked on that one movie, but then quickly realized that the path of being an assistant director was not gonna…

— Suzanne Todd

“Many accepted authors simply do not exist for me. Their names are engraved on empty graves, their books are dummies, they are…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and…

— Rick Yancey

“The amount of excitement when you say hi will be paid back when you say bye!”

— S.E. SEVER

“I've never known any trouble that an hour's worth of reading didn't assauge”

— Baron De Montesquieu Charles De Secondat

I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things.

— Chris Diamantopoulos

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

— Adolf Hitler

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

— Tommy Hilfiger

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

— Derrick Bell

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

— Maynard James Keenan

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

— Robert B. Parker

I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip.

— Klaus Teuber

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

— Gabriel Campisi

“I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each…

— Nicole Krauss

I've learned more about animals just by reading to my kid than I ever did studying.

— James Holzhauer

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Reading without eating food is like Person standing in a war without weapons.”

— Anonymous

“Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.”

— Carew Papritz

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan