Reading Quotes · Page 150

I spend a lot of time thinking of stories and reading and that's where my creativity comes from.

— Mukul Dev

You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading…

— Jodi Picoult

After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?

— Danny DeVito

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

— Colleen McCullough

I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it.

— Akira Toriyama

The more developed your abs, the less time you've spent reading.

— Natasha Leggero

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

— Alberto Manguel

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.

— Charlie Huston

I'm reading 'Ten Storey Love Song' by Richard Milward. I read his first novel, 'Apples,' after hearing a reading of his in…

— Jed Mercurio

Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired…

— Anne Tyler

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture…

— John Nelson Darby

Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in…

— Al Feldstein

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I…

— Peter Ackroyd

I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and…

— Nicholson Baker

“If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don’t read big Tolkienesque fantasies — Tolkien didn’t read big…

— Neil Gaiman

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print.…

— Carol Shields

Remember how pissed you got when we had to do all that reading about the Rising back in sixth grade? I thought…

— Mira Grant

“In later years, Reading seems to have been regarded as a handy place to run down to, when matters were becoming unpleasant…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat…

— Greg Mortenson

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality…

— Sylvia Plath

Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I’ve done some crazy stuff…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting…

— Anonymous

“How the excitement comes upon me to tell it all! In the quest of writing, the heart can speed up with anticipation--as…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand … Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment…

— Ayn Rand

Sometimes, my reading choices are defined by the place I'm travelling next.

— Sudha Murty

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Personally, I refuse to drive a car - I won't have anything to do with any kind of transportation in which I…

— Arthur C. Clarke

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

— Francois Mauriac

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

— Anonymous

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

— Anonymous

Haven't read a book for years - keep buying them and never getting round to reading them - I never seem to…

— Limahl

When I first saw stand-up it was Lee Evans. Then I got into Ricky Gervais - we're both from Reading.

— Tom Rosenthal

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books…

— Albert Einstein

The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

— Frederick Lenz

It was a great time working at Reading, especially the first season getting very close to going to the Premier League.

— Jaap Stam

“There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words...”

— Lindsay Eland

I love a good book. I'm not a club girl. I like hanging out and reading my books.

— Madelaine Petsch

I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.

— Richelle Mead

“I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.”

— Santosh Kalwar

I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.

— Alice Sebold