Reading Quotes · Page 124

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

— John Locke

Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been.

— Bobby Brown

“I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.”

— Anna Quindlen

My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

— Charlie Brooker

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

— Octavia Butler

I am confident that many people will find the New Testament alive in a new way after reading The Message.

— Jay Kesler

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

— Patrick O'Brian

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

— Robert Downey Sr

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books…

— Jason Marsden

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What…

— Antonia Fraser

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are…

— Sandra Cisneros

I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do…

— Mariella Frostrup

Sajib: That's a good point. I find mslyef passing on novels over 400 pages these days. There's just not enough time. Thank…

— Arman

For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I…

— Elizabeth Strout

Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it.…

— Elaine Pagels

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while…

— Sarah Zettel

“He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college,…

— Thomas Love Peacock

My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother…

— Joie Lee

Only in Southern California do camping grounds actually have wifi, so I was sitting in my tent and I started reading it…

— Remi Aubuchon

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory…

— Diane Setterfield

I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the…

— Jimmy Wales

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a…

— J. D. Salinger

Although I don't know Paul McCartney, a mutual friend told me that Paul was reading my book, This Is Your Brain on…

— Daniel Levitin

Again and again, Primo Levi's work is described as indispensable, essential, necessary. None of those terms overstate the case, but they do…

— Howard Jacobson

I was lonely as a kid. Since I had no siblings, I spent a lot of time by myself and a lot…

— Sandra Faber

Reading is important because it makes you smarter and lets you find out about things you're curious about.

— Alex Wolff

A leader isnt born, he his made by reading and by learning. A leader must know how to hurt those he loves.

— Samule Kermis

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

— Sheryl Sandberg

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood,

— Jeaniene Frost

I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she…

— Diane Setterfield

Surfing and trail running chill me out. I like reading, too. And playing my guitar - I wish I were better.

— Alex O'Loughlin

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

— Dr. Seuss

Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

— Marie Clay

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

— Milla Jovovich

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

— Italo Calvino

I really can't help what someone thinks of me because they are reading a paper and choosing to believe it.

— Shenae Grimes

Well, I have a problem with reading too much into things, so that just it almost freaks me out in a sense.

— Julianna Pena

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

— Edwidge Danticat

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

— Carlos Fuentes

A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain.

— Erik Larson