Reading Quotes · Page 140

I like reading and writing, and I am a trained classical dancer.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

— Jean Fritz

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

— Khaled Hosseini

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

— Salman Rushdie

The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo…

— Tyra Banks

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

— Annie Proulx

I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

— Karla Souza

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

— John Cage

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by…

— Isaac Newton

“Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought…

— Glen Duncan

I [read] "The Book of Unknown Americans," which is by a friend of mine, Cristina Henriquez, and is about two Latino, immigrant…

— Laila Lalami

We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.

— Robert Bringhurst

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its…

— Augustus Hare

“I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me…

— Elizabeth Knox

If you're considering going into student debt, I encourage you to seek the Lord's will through the reading and study of His…

— Randy Alcorn

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading…

— Rupert Sanders

I've worked with Emily Skinner and I've seen Linda Balgord's work. I saw Harvey Keitel at the call-backs. But generally I don't…

— Max von Essen

“His chief form of entertainment was reading. The last moments he was in a cabin were usually spent scanning bookshelves and nightstands.…

— Michael Finkel

Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them…

— Anonymous

As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which…

— Robert Hass

Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not…

— Elizabeth Scott

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one…

— Abraham Lincoln

If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t…

— Francis Spufford

My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the…

— Maryanne Wolf

I think reading is important. Not just for children, but for adults across the board.

— Montel Vontavious Porter

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

— Manuel Puig

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

— Bella Thorne

The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.

— John Wesley Harding

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

— Jami Attenberg

I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

— Dan Brown

All-star lay downs are all about reading your opponents, trusting your instincts, and then making the right move.

— Phil Hellmuth

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

— Anonymous

It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading, you don't have to work.

— Charlie Munger

“Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that [reading] opened.”

— Malcom X

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

— Ricky Gervais

I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.

— Doug Liman

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I…

— Linda Ronstadt

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

— Bel Powley

When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.

— Rakim

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

— Jackie French