Reading Quotes · Page 135

“reading is like an aeroplane it allows you to travell all over with just a book in your hand”

— Annakay Gordon

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

— Dermot Healy

Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.

— Brandon Sanderson

The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.

— Marilyn Jager Adams

Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails.

— David Letterman

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

— Shonda Rhimes

“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ Afterword ]”

— Michael Chabon

I'm good at finding things to do on my own, even if it's just reading.

— Robert Webb

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I cant help but notice in so many stories,…

— Kate Bernheimer

Reading music has opened up me up so much. I've been experimenting for so long and trying to make sense of things…

— Flying Lotus

We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want…

— Jay Chiat

Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that…

— Jonathan Lethem

The reading I did do that stuck with me was usually somewhat breathless and brittle - I suppose camp. But my definition…

— Rick Owens

To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too.…

— Henry Rollins

It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming…

— Laura Furman

I grew up reading about all those film-makers who were part of a group, like the new wave. It's a little stranger…

— Anna Boden

I was lying in bed on a Saturday morning, reading the paper, when my phone went. The caller was Rangers director, Jack…

— Alex Ferguson

The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of…

— Jo Walton

“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength,…

— J.R. Miller

You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent…

— Sheila Heti

“The great writers have always been great readers, but that does not mean that they read all the books that, in their…

— Anonymous

“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”…

— Jane Austen

The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.…

— Virginia Woolf

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

— Stanley Bing

I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

— Dave Barry

I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive.

— Tyrone Hayes

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

— Germaine Greer

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into…

— John Burroughs

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

— Vladimir Nabokov

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that…

— Thomas Harris

“To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken.”

— Yann Martel

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

— Frank McCourt

Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

— Wendy Beckett

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

— Roberto Bolano

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my…

— Mario Benedetti

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

— Robert Quine

“Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!”

— Carmela Dutra

“he was supposed to be reading, but it was impossible. She had done something”

— LaVyrle Spencer