Reading Quotes · Page 123

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

— H. L. Mencken

I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

— Felicity Jones

“I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely.”

— Alyxandra Harvey

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

— Stephen D. Krashen

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

— Jonathan Franzen

“His granny taught him to read, see. I reckon it overheated his mind.”

— Terry Pratchett

Reading about what a digital native thinks of the Internet is like reading about what it's like to blink: it's kind of…

— Emma Healey

I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.

— David Harewood

“Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn to believe,…

— Iris Murdoch

I think everyone does selective reading. Everybody has a filter, and that is real easy for critics to see things from their…

— Rick Warren

I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working…

— Barbara Crampton

Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device…

— Steven Pressfield

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that…

— Jessica Mitford

Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read…

— Jesse Jackson

I was reading some Raymond Carver. I really liked how he did that 'slice of life' thing. Because I'm not much of…

— Limmy

Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping…

— Lance Morrow

“You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You…

— Anthony Horowitz

I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to…

— Naomi Wallace

To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not…

— George Spencer-Brown

People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in…

— Chuck Klosterman

After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do…

— Nat Hentoff

Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a…

— Scott Turow

The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over…

— William Murchison

The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are…

— Tony Robbins

At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.

— Shane West

Fortunately, I'm in a position where I'm reading lots of feature scripts and so forth.

— David Nutter

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

— Rosanne Cash

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

— Mason Cooley

“What's writ is what's read, yet the meaning is gone, since context is what gives each quote its own home.”

— Will Advise

Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his…

— K. R. Narayanan

Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.

— Bonnie Tyler

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

— Karl Lagerfeld

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

— Walt Disney

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

— Elizabeth Drew

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

— Glen Hirshberg

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of…

— Charlotte Mason

“Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.”

— Dan Sanders

As an ethnic female in wrestling, there will be people reading my words and I want to set an example. I did…

— Gail Kim

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

— Leigh Hunt