Reading Quotes · Page 110

I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

— Penn Jillette

“I’m hanging on to your words like you’re my favorite book. And, I’m completely engrossed in every page of who you are.”

— Liz Newman

A newspaper is ten times more interesting when somebody across the table is reading it?

— Anonymous

“You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.”

— Nancy M. Malone

I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.

— John Lanchester

Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.

— Nick Hornby

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

— Donalyn Miller

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

— Paul Theroux

“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry…

— Harold Bloom

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created…

— Edward St Aubyn

I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them,…

— Ann Packer

“A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster…

— Edward G. Robinson

I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like…

— Kim Smith

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse…

— Aleister Crowley

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton…

— Tommy Lee

A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,…

— Charles Horton Cooley

I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller…

— Helene Hanff

I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress…

— Kamand Kojouri

When you get pregnant, you start reading pregnancy books. Everything has been pretty textbook. It's amazing how they can say , 'This…

— Anna Silk

Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the…

— Barbara Deming

I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good…

— Josh Radnor

Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms…

— George Will

“When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.”

— Chloe Thurlow

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

— John Wesley

The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more…

— Gore Vidal

“We are defined not so much by what we're reading, as by what we're reading next.”

— Julia Keller

' No entertainment is so fugal, as reading, nor any Pleasure so Lasting!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.

— James Merritt

“The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story”

— Brandt Legg

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

— William Shakespeare

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

— Bruce Dickinson

while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

— Edith Roosevelt

My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

— Charlie Brooker

“Reading is like dreaming. You can't control anything, but it takes you to another world”

— Anonymous

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

— Anonymous

I was an introvert really. I spent a lot of time in the crib reading books. Staying out of trouble.

— The D.O.C

“Reading is a pathway to the mind. The destination is the soul." Clu Gallagher”

— Clu Gallagher