Reading Quotes · Page 131

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

— Justin Cronin

“You have been called to a life of blessing, don't descend to that of curses.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

— Bill Bruford

“Somebody is observing my writings, I know that. That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.”

— Toba Beta

“A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.

— Northrop Frye

I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention…

— Joseph Addison

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done…

— C. S. Lewis

From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only…

— Leo Buscaglia

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other…

— Joyce Brothers

“I wake up and read although Nietzsche says that’s foolish. A sort of narcotic, reading. I read with my hands down the…

— Kate Zambreno

Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however,…

— Marcel Proust

I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely…

— Dallas Roberts

I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone.…

— Vaclav Smil

Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog…

— Bertrand Russell

We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is…

— Huey Newton

In the last years, I've been reading the Eastern fathers, the older mystical writings, a rich, deep, and truly traditional Christianity which…

— Richard Rohr

“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about.…

— Will Schwalbe

“Are you missing the library again?" Seth asked, startling her as he walked into the room. Kendra turned to face her brother.…

— Brandon Mull

“Capitulating when losing is an issue in war; capitulating when winning is an issue in love”

— S.E. SEVER

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

— Paul Rand

“I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.”

— Amit Kalantri

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

— Anonymous

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.

— Eric Thomas

“Life is like a mute tutor: it teaches via showing what we call fate”

— Ela Crain

Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.

— Ruth Ozeki

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

— Marshall McLuhan

I can say without doubt, that reading has had a huge influence on my life.

— Tom Fletcher

It's not research if you're really interested in what you're reading.

— Ravi Subramanian

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

— Seamus Heaney

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

— Socrates

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are…

— Italo Calvino

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

— Eoin Colfer

Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation.

— William Zinsser