Reading Quotes · Page 137

“I spent most of my free time reading. It was a great escape from reality”

— Teresa Mummert

For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.

— Neal Asher

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.

— Sonam Kapoor

“Life is a journey where people travel through each other's memories. If you want to keep a secret well, keep it from…

— S.E. SEVER

“My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We”

— Gabrielle Zevin

When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.

— Tenzin Palmo

“Imbalanced reactions are discreet indicators of previous scars”

— S.E. SEVER

“Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous”

— Anonymous

Herta Muller, Mo Yan, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - for many of us, the Nobels have become doubly educational: We simultaneously learn…

— Ben Dolnick

I wanted to stay in New York to pursue acting, but my dad urged me to get a four-year degree. Reading about…

— Lauren Miller

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

— Edgar Allan Poe

If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage…

— Alberto Manguel

Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing…

— William J. Clinton

I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and…

— Mannie Fresh

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're…

— Eoin Colfer

As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to…

— Kim Basinger

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very…

— Margaret Thatcher

The biggest challenge for me, as an actor, is to be informed, prepared and focused, at the same time. I had to…

— Hugo Weaving

“Rob turned the rustling pages and grinned. 'Ach, she's writ here: "Oh, the dear Feegles ha' turned up again,"' he said. This…

— Terry Pratchett

“He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world to enter, that of…

— Alan Ryan

“Her grandfather's books [...] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away.…

— Irène Némirovsky

In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has…

— Neal Stephenson

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which…

— Thomas Jefferson

The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

— Gore Verbinski

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

— Dorothy Parker

I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.

— Katherine Dunn

If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.

— Mary Roach

“A good book should make you think at the end, not just give a solution to the problem at the end.”

— Sydney 4363

I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.

— Lorin Stein

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

— Daniel Pennac

“I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.”

— Joseph Conrad

“The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I have a reading problem and it's hard for me to read books. But I had no problem with the 'Emerald Forest'…

— Charley Boorman

In a reading, I might hear a voice, see an image or even get a physical sensation that corresponds with how someone…

— Tyler Henry

“I don't have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read.”

— Gina Sheridan

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

— Wally Lamb

Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

— Ally Condie

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.

— Jami Attenberg