Reading Quotes · Page 112

If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.

— Kanye West

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

— Gary Shteyngart

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

— Jane Austen

“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”

— Harold Bloom

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

— Siri Hustvedt

this is the best year ever because i am reading the chronicles of vladimir tod

— Heather Brewer

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

— Michael Caine

“How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book?”

— Florence King

If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then,…

— Robert Barry

I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling…

— Harold Bloom

My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Oftentimes you read scripts, and you get to one and you think, 'OK, is this good, or is this just better than…

— Sissy Spacek

When I was 12, I was probably writing 'Twilight' fanfic, and somewhere someone was reading it being like, 'This is really disturbing.'

— Rachel Sennott

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would…

— Alia Shawkat

Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an…

— Kate Atkinson

“Reading the written Word points to the Living Word and says to us, “Go to Jesus.” If we do not go to…

— Stephen Chappell

“These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the…

— John Connolly

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading…

— Charles Stanley

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not…

— Philip Larkin

I had just finished reading The Day of the Locust when this piece was brought to my attention, and I was like,…

— Matt Bomer

It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my…

— Sasa Stanisic

Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are…

— Lynn Coady

To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had…

— Alan Bennett

I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve…

— John Boyne

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

— Ernest Hemingway

I actually really do meditation and then I spend my morning reading.

— Jen Kirkman

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

— Rumer Godden

Every reading is different as far as timing, so some will last a half hour and others will last three hours.

— Tyler Henry

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

— Adriana Trigiani

From my own experience, I know how important reading together can be for parents and children.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

— Anonymous

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

— Francis Quarles

I was the only kid reading guitar magazines at the back of the classroom.

— Orianthi

“Eating and sleeping are the two periods in your life where writers get a pass for not reading. Check that. Only sleeping.”

— Ted BELL

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

— Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.

— Joy Fielding

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

— Lily King

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a…

— Mark Rubinstein

What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.

— Matthew Healy

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Maya Angelou