Reading Quotes · Page 127

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.

— Rory Bremner

“The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

— Douglas Crockford

The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'

— Lionel Shriver

“Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it.”

— Marcel Proust

“Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.”

— Rett MacPherson

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

— Heinrich Heine

“I didn’t know you enjoyed tree climbing.' 'Tree reading actually. It’s an art which should not be conducted while lethargic….”

— Grace Hitchcock

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I'm spending most of my time with my family, reading scripts, talking to my loved ones, checking about their safety and meditating.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have…

— Robert J. Shiller

I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have…

— Arijit Singh

When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at…

— Michael Schur

“He read as others pray, as gamblers follow the spinning of the roulette wheel, as drunkards stare into vacancy; he read with…

— Stefan Zweig

“Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could…

— Jill Mansell

“--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me. --Really? I've found that all my well-read…

— Amor Towles

“My job is not to sell the books - my father does that - but to look after them. Every so often…

— Diane Setterfield

“That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men. Consequently whereunto, those persons, that for the most part can…

— Thomas Hobbes

Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that…

— Jim Thompson

“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only…

— Italo Calvino

My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We…

— Philip Pullman

Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form…

— Truman Capote

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large…

— David Sylvian

“Old bookworms never die, they just go to be with their favorite fictional characters.”

— Random

When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.

— Jerry Seinfeld

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

— Penelope Lively

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

— Karin Slaughter

“I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.”

— Harper Lee

Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading.

— Maryanne Wolf

You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.

— Dr. Seuss

Reading faces is a crucial part of children's socialization and helps them learn empathy.

— Miranda Devine

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

— Clive James

It's called 'reading'. It's how people install new software into their brains.

— Scott A. Becker

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

— Anonymous

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

— Salman Rushdie

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

— Bill Watterson

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”

— Harold Bloom

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to…

— Annie Dillard