Reading Quotes · Page 152

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

— James Patterson

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

— Henry David Thoreau

If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up…

— Jeremy Sumpter

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

— Tara Bray Smith

To be a true scientist, is to begin reading the book from the end.

— Savannah Yates

I spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying.

— Lauren Mayberry

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world…

— Billy Graham

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

— Kelley Armstrong

The time that I would spend revisiting my old Get Your War On strips is more profitably spent Googling myself and reading…

— David Rees

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your…

— Jerry Pournelle

I think, like most people, we are familiar with Aquaman. We grew up reading or watching this character on the peripheral. I…

— James Wan

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or…

— Olly Murs

“So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the…

— Luisa Weiss

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even…

— Laurie Helgoe

A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more…

— Erich Fromm

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a…

— Mary Jo Salter

An actress reading a part for the first time tries many ways to say the same line before she settles into the…

— Stella Chess

You learn so much with each book, but it's what you teach yourself by writing your own books and by reading good…

— Maggie O'Farrell

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head,…

— Jasper Fforde

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book.…

— John Cage

A lot of times, you're not necessarily off the page because you haven't been able to take the time to prepare a…

— Gus Van Sant

Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped…

— Susan J. Douglas

In my experience with EEG Biofeedback and ADD, many people are able to improve their reading skills and decrease their need for…

— Daniel Amen

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious…

— J. M. Coetzee

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

— Roald Dahl

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

— Jim Harrison

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

— Conrad Aiken

“I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.”

— John Fowles

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

— Seneca the Younger

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”

— Steven Spielberg

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

— Oliver DeMille

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

— Larry David

I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years.

— Nick Yarris

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

— Joseph Delaney

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

— Franz Kafka

I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.

— Petra Collins

I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it.

— Paul S. Kemp

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.

— Toni Morrison