Reading Quotes · Page 155

I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

— Harper Lee

I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.

— John Dufresne

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

“Watch out for people who tell you what to do, they might be learning from your failures”

— Ela Crain

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.

— William Kircher

“Reading. It's a simple way to get one step closer to our dreams”

— Ninda

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book…

— Amanda Hocking

I was in Mauritius, shooting for 'Break Ke Baad,' and I went for skydiving. It was a life-changing experience. Travelling, dancing, and…

— Deepika Padukone

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and…

— Michelle Moran

As soon as my brain starts working on reading a book, my dreams get a little more exciting, and music comes a…

— Yung Lean

Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable…

— David Attenborough

“The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and…

— Christie Laing

Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I…

— Vivienne Westwood

Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for…

— Tim Berners-Lee

I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to…

— Denise Duhamel

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You…

— Haruki Murakami

Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life…

— Jack Dorsey

“It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we…

— Ellen Gilchrist

I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents…

— Sara Paretsky

“And somehow or other, the windows being open, and the book held so that it rested upon a background of escallonia hedges…

— Virginia Woolf

I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You…

— Helen Bevington

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

— Jim Mattis

I remember reading Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' in my grandmother's Moscow apartment and feeling this call to be a better person.

— Keith Gessen

I think Dan Brown is a terribly bad writer, but he has cliff-hangers after every chapter which makes you continue reading.

— Stellan Skarsgard

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading…

— Anonymous

“There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.”

— Charles Lamb

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you…

— Clive James

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

— Dr. Seuss

“any book in the world - if there was only one way to read and understand it, what would be the point…

— Kate Milford

“Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.”

— Holly Black

There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the…

— James Patterson

“Listening's reading if you close your eyes. Music's a wood you walk through.”

— David Mitchell

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

— Bret Easton Ellis

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

— Frank Moore Colby

“Freedom is not doing anything you wish; it’s actually not doing the things that you don’t wish”

— Ela Crain

I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation.

— Ali Larter

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

— Frank Crane