Reading Quotes · Page 129

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I'm a physical learner. I learn from writing drafts, not reading them.

— Lauren Groff

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

— Anonymous

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

— Barack Obama

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

— David Mitchell

Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

— Clive James

I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.

— Rachel Boston

“i'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.”

— Larry McMurtry

From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what…

— Henry David Thoreau

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze…

— David Nicholls

“Kindle is a revolutionary reading device, and we're excited that you have joined the millions of people around the world who read…

— Anonymous

Social media allows people to connect. So instead of reading about the Arab Spring, I can have students following along, in real-time,…

— Steven Anderson

“But Rosine had read books . . . so many books ... Her over-excited memory was filling her mind with terrifying images…

— Maurice Renard

So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only…

— Emily Levine

I read everywhere. It's like a bodily function. I don't need quiet. I write and read with the TV on. I follow…

— Chris Abani

“The real measure of 'truth' in any novel is not whether the characters, places and events portrayed exist beyond the pages of…

— Graeme Macrae Burnet

The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“That brings me to the real reason for the title: Where does that which happens during reading a book take place? (...)…

— Michael Ende

“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the…

— Jose Marti

And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their…

— Sarah Dessen

Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him,…

— Lewis Thomas

“Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.”

— AnnaMarie Ralph

This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

— Victor Hugo

“A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is…

— Victor J. Banis

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

— Stephen King

“Ink, dark as night, creates words, and as they are read, they become the little beads and baubles of the mind.”

— Suzanne Valtsioti

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

— Isaac D'Israeli

The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.

— Michael Connelly

“Unsupervised reading is a blessing for a certain kind of child”

— Victor LaValle

I knew Gandhi only as a freedom fighter. It is only after reading his autobiography that I realized what a man he…

— Rohini Hattangadi

Trusting God is something we do in the same manner as reading instructions; when everything else fails.

— Vikrant Parsai

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

— Anonymous

I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'

— Ed Helms

I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of…

— Spike Milligan

“My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.”

— Jazz Feylynn