Reading Quotes · Page 121

“A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.”

— C.S. Lewis

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I am extremely passionate about reading and like to read about anything and everything under the sun.

— Asin

“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.”

— John Grisham

“Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

Lord Ashcroft's 2005 report 'Smell the Coffee' made uncomfortable reading for the Conservatives.

— Nicky Morgan

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

— Doris Lessing

Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.

— Jaylen Brown

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children…

— Wilford Woodruff

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other…

— Stendhal

I was a good boy in high school , and I read for English class, and I vaguely remember reading, as a…

— Paul G. Tremblay

“You can be anywhere you want in the world, meet different people and learn more than a hundred things in a matter…

— C.M. Okonkwo

The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are…

— Michael Silverblatt

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with…

— Fergie

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in…

— Mary MacLane

“But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The main reason I decided to study Latin American literature was because I'd gotten somewhat bored by the American fiction I was…

— Adam Morris

There is not enough Bible-reading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We must actually READ it, and PRAY…

— J. C. Ryle

What I had found after the success of Karate Kid II is that an actor basically needs to - a primary requirement…

— Tamlyn Tomita

People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You…

— Alice Munro

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his…

— Richard M. Nixon

Books can be passed around. They can be shared. A lot of people like seeing them in their houses. They are memories.…

— Daniel Goldin

How do you make your kids read more? It needs to be presented as a joy and a privilege to get to…

— Kate DiCamillo

God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds…

— Dorothy Parker

“This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.”

— Dōgen

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

— Gene Luen Yang

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

— Al Pacino

“There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.”

— Lauren Morrill

My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.

— Gail Caldwell

“I want the kids to enjoy reading not only today but for the rest of their lives.”

— Ron Clark

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

— Tom T. Hall

“Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.”

— Charles Lamb

“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.”

— Sara Sheridan

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

— Oscar Wilde

I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

— Manolo Blahnik

“We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them. [ Inside Out (VH1)]”

— Warren Zevon

My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.

— Carrie Coon

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

— Tom Rachman