Reading Quotes · Page 123

When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.

— Lisa Jewell

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

— Anonymous

Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help.

— Elayne Boosler

“You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.”

— Jay Kristoff

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

— Jeff VanderMeer

“It's easy to give when you have more than enough, but it’s easier to feel you have enough when you give”

— Ela Crain

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my…

— Mario Benedetti

“After each book the world changes in my eyes, i have become more suspicious and eager at the same time.”

— Anna Jae

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they…

— Neil Armstrong

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to…

— Laurie Anderson

I'm a talk-show junkie. I'd rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what…

— Donella Meadows

As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on…

— William Golding

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going…

— Gary Ross

I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together…

— Maria Rodale

“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from…

— Annie Murphy Paul

“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways,…

— Anne Tyler

I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this;…

— Ian Rankin

The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously,…

— Donna Leon

Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting…

— Phil Cousineau

Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that…

— Wanda Landowska

I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was…

— Simon Schama

As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to…

— James Patterson

Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be…

— Sherman Alexie

“The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though…

— Emily Brontë

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.

— Ronald Reagan

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

— George Steiner

I love my job, but it can be a little stressful at times. And reading has become a really healthy escape.

— Sean Doolittle

“Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads”

— Ronald T. Potter-Efron

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

— Gustave Flaubert

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

— Michael Tippett

“Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end.”

— Peter Davis

“When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.

— Amber Heard

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

— Gabriel Campisi

“The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.”

— Italo Calvino

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

— Bertrand Russell

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

— Keri Russell

After reading the Elon Musk book and getting a Tesla - he is at the top of my list of inspiring founders.

— Michael Seibel

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

— Alison Weir