Reading Quotes · Page 139

If I'm not playing basketball, I'm reading or thinking of stories I can create.

— Robin Lopez

“Commit yourself to the serious reading of books, and your life will be enlightened.”

— Anonymous

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

— Kate Mosse

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

— Alison Weir

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions…

— John Steinbeck

Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.

— Terry Eagleton

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A misconception that exists in the eyes of the general reading population is that authors make truckloads of money.

— Ravi Subramanian

Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make…

— Karin Slaughter

Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and…

— Michael Ignatieff

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part…

— Grace Paley

I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that…

— Robin Wasserman

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one…

— Doris Lessing

“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little…

— Matt Haig

“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves…

— Storm Jameson

When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this…

— Ben Feldman

“Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your…

— Mark Haddon

Being an informed voter means, at the very least, researching recommendations and endorsements from more than one source and reading both the…

— Jackie Fuchs

In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude.…

— Mohsin Hamid

If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard…

— Erik Wolpaw

“However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book is…

— Alberto Manguel

I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me…

— Kate DiCamillo

Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if…

— Art Spiegelman

“Mortimer!" Orpheus produced a derisive smile, although with some difficulty. "Is your head buried so deep in your wine jug that you…

— Cornelia Funke

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

— George Washington

There is a certain amount you can learn from reading, but you also need to see and experience things.

— James Forman, Jr

“A dreamer is someone who hopes to comprehend things that others cannot even imagine”

— S.E. SEVER

I've always loved to read, but sometimes I go for a year without reading a book, because I forget to.

— Norah Jones

“Reading is an escape from the outside world. Everyone needs a little of that to keep their sanity.”

— Kim Holden

“Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands. ”

— Ezra Pound

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

— Bill Gates

If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

— Anonymous

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.

— Tom Clancy

“Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be offered to the reader as a form of…

— Mohsin Hamid

“You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4”

— Patience Johnson

“Sit here, so I may write you into a poem and make you eternal.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real.

— Austin Peck

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

— Marilyn vos Savant

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

— Robert Byrne

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.

— Arthur Schopenhauer