Reading Quotes · Page 114

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

— Dr. Seuss

“The most rigorous reading is to find what those words on that page mean in our own lives.”

— Kylene Beers

“Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless”

— Katherine Rundell

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

— Johnny Cash

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

— Abraham Lincoln

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

— Margaret Haddix

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

— Michael Stipe

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

— Joe Orton

“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake…

— Franz Kafka

For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable…

— Glen Duncan

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour…

— Anthony Doerr

“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Prosperity: Great leaders teach other leaders the infinite intelligence that enables them to have plenty of…

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for…

— Anne Graham Lotz

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class…

— Simon Newcomb

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd…

— Philip Pullman

Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has…

— Katie Kitamura

A children's biography doesn't have to be comprehensive, and it doesn't have to be definitive. It does have to be accurate, to…

— Russell Freedman

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then…

— Neil Gaiman

“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself…

— Laurie Penny

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps…

— George Gordon Byron

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm…

— Colm Toibin

The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time.…

— Richard Siken

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the…

— Martin Scorsese

Hearing alone is less effective in learning God's truth than hearing combined with reading.

— Max Anders

I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

— Joan Walsh Anglund

“reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

— Theodora Goss

“Quiet,” she hissed at me, her voice shockingly aggressive for such a small person. “Otherwise, I’ll shut you up myself.”

— Adele Rose

I've never had any interest in reading the real-life stories of criminals. I don't want to get inside their heads.

— Viv Albertine

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

— Daniel Handler

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

— Richard Rohr

“I recommend reading #FourBloodMoons by @PastorJohnHagee // @worthypub” // #BloodMoons”

— John Hagee

“Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.”

— Clementine Holzinger

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”

— René Descartes

“My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.”

— Jung Chang

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil - not God!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

— Maryanne Wolf

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

— Malcolm X