Reading Quotes · Page 159

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

— Walter Jon Williams

“My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.”

— Edward Gibbon

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

— Emma Thompson

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

— Samuel Johnson

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

— Julianne Moore

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

— Ian Mcewan

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote…

— Anonymous

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

— Jacques Barzun

Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education…

— Rebecca Mead

In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it…

— Greta Gerwig

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also…

— Leo Tolstoy

Here's a message to all the employers out there reading this: if a comedian comes to you having given up comedy and…

— Sean Lock

“Clearly, this was another thing I needed to add to the: ‘repetitive cycle of things that were constantly happening in my life’…

— Adele Rose

Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not…

— Michael Portillo

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that…

— Stanley Crawford

“I believe it’s fine to give up books even after a page; there’s so much to read in the world that will…

— Hilary Mantel

“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change…

— Anonymous

Once I get on something, once I have something that I'm working on, then I become very obsessive. In a good way.…

— Annette Bening

I didn't really want to be an actor when I was growing up - I wanted to be whatever I was reading…

— Jason Sudeikis

“Thrillers, like all genre fiction, remain for the most part “beneath.” There is a feeling in literature, more than any other art…

— Will Lavender

I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,…

— Lebbeus Woods

I like reading for things. I've shown up for jobs before where I haven't read for them, and there's something kind of…

— Luke Grimes

“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the…

— Ben Lerner

I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and…

— Walter Kirn

“Every real reader must read Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: the whole of his/her life of reading will change its meaning.”

— Paolo Milani

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

— Norah Jones

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

— Oprah Winfrey

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

— William Faulkner

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

— Peter O'Toole

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

— Jonathan Daniels

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

— Reynolds Price

“If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.”

— Lorii Myers

“Let your words glorify God and edify your hearers and then beautify your life.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“i love reading and am always stuck in one labrinth of letters or other”

— Sarah Vowell

“I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it.”

— Daniel T. O'Hara

“Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Don’t dwell on the mistakes of the past while the mistakes of the future are waiting for you”

— Ela Crain

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

— Dr. Seuss