Reading Quotes · Page 125

“I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.”

— Sarah Orne Jewett

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.

— Tom Regan

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

— Miranda Otto

“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

— David Herbert Donald

“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day”

— Ashley Poston

“I’m not dead. But when I am, it’s like . . . I don’t know, I guess it’s like being inside a…

— Tim O'Brien

“Exercise to stay fit and healthy. Read to learn from the finest people. Meditate to experience more peace.”

— Robert Celner

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare…

— Geoffrey Rush

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person,…

— James Laughlin

Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das…

— Alasdair MacLean

But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived…

— Jurnee Smollett

I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the…

— Pat Conroy

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air…

— Shakira

“Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack,…

— Amor Towles

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books…

— Joanne Harris

Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning…

— Michael Mosley

The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands…

— B. C. Forbes

What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a…

— Kelly Gallagher

Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps weren’t there, but might be. And even…

— L.L. Barkat

All I can promise the supporters of Reading is that I come in here and give 100%, I try to get the…

— Steve Clarke

We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why…

— Bruce Feiler

I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When…

— Isabel Allende

“Reading is your window to the world that no one can close for you.”

— Sara Samarasinghe

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

— Claire Messud

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

— Josh Hutcherson

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

— Thomas Hardy

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

— Thomas Jefferson

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

— Jack Kerouac

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we must stay where we are.”

— Mason Cooley

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

— Elizabeth von Arnim

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,…

— Maya Angelou

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

— Marcus Garvey

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

— Cyprian

“Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.”

— Aneta Cruz

It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

— Mary Archer

“He's not one for reading, which to me is like saying you're not one for breathing.”

— Kirstin Cronn-Mills

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly

“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

— Harper Lee