Reading Quotes · Page 147

Some of the best proof reading is done in the 50 microseconds after you hit 'send.'

— Anonymous

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

— Stephen Fry

“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

— David Duchovny

“Saturdays are for all the reading you can't fit in during the week.”

— Hector Cantu Carlos Castellanos

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

— Haruki Murakami

I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.

— Marie Rutkoski

thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.

— Isaac Watts

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the…

— Rush Limbaugh

I was offered a role in 'Dabangg 2,' but after reading the script, I didn't feel there was much space for my…

— Sonu Sood

“He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”

— Pierce Brown

When my reading ability is sharp, I can dodge bullets, baby! I have no problem folding super-strong hands and that saves me…

— Phil Hellmuth

“Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew…

— Cornelia Funke

Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively…

— Michelle Obama

Safety' hysteria destroyed MySpace in the press. It got MySpace banned from schools, Apple stores, and by well-meaning parents who had been…

— Tom Anderson

It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when…

— John Taylor Gatto

When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to…

— John Scalzi

My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the…

— Charles J. Shields

“I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished…

— Sven Birkerts

“Of all books printed, probably not more than half are ever read. Many are embalmed in public libraries; many go into private…

— Flora Haines Loughead

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was…

— Paul Auster

I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits,…

— Martin Amis (Author

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

— David Hume

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very…

— Iain Banks

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

— Aerin Lauder

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.

— Sol Stein

I will sign every contract Arsenal put in front of me without reading it.

— Tony Adams

“The bible is an instruction book you don't want to skip reading.”

— Amanda Penland

I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

— Angelina Jolie

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

— David Mitchell

“There is a book for every walk of life. No matter the age, race, or gender there is something that will appeal…

— Carmela Dutra

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

“If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.”

— Murray Pura

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

— Holbrook Jackson

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.

— Colin Baker

“The moment I started reading, I was no longer in my bedroom, no longer sad, no longer even myself.”

— Katrina Leno

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

— Moses Hadas