Reading Quotes · Page 158

I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got…

— Jay-Z

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

— Rick Moody

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.

— Brandon Sanderson

It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

— Maisie Williams

“Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

It takes a lot to stop myself scrambling around and reading the news.

— Russell Howard

I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

— Margot Kidder

I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm…

— Karen Traviss

“...being daunted by her father in every intellectual attempt, she read every book that came in her way, almost with as much…

— Elizabeth Gaskell Wives and Daughters

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…

— Yann Martel

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

— William Eggleston

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I'll go out, travel these countries, I'll watch how…

— Muhammad Ali

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work…

— Leszek Kolakowski

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading…

— Guy Johnson

Since I hold no judgments against my characters, no matter how heinous they might seem, I present them as real people with…

— Chris Abani

I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has…

— Frances Harper

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is…

— Henry Miller

First off, from reading the script and knowing that I was going to be apart of it, I'm a huge 'Wizard of…

— Kathleen Robertson

My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my…

— Nick Offerman

It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such…

— David Lammy

“The girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn’t help but notice that all this time, she was…

— Nico J. Genes

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading…

— Maria Montessori

“Rosenberg's First Law of Reading: never apologize for your reading tastes.”

— Betty Rosenberg

“Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.”

— Arlaina Tibensky

“Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.”

— Jeffrey Michael

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.”

— Sara Sheridan

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.

— Federica Mogherini

I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon!

— Juliana Rotich

Sitting eating sushi in the city, incredibly chilled out reading Nietzsche.

— Joey Barton

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

— Richard Wright

Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

— Italo Calvino

“Writing a novel creates a window to a new way of looking at the world. Reading one means looking through that window.”

— Mark Rubinstein

When I'm reading a book and someone asks me what I'm reading, I don't answer. I just raise book up, so they…

— Anonymous

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

— Armie Hammer

“Asking me if I like reading is like asking me if I like breathing.”

— Anonymus

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

— Eric Schmidt