Reading Quotes · Page 160

I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well.

— Sarah Monette

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

— Lord Byron

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

— John Green

Listening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes.

— Ralston Bowles

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

— William James

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

— Franklin P. Jones

“Reading,” I said. “Books. It’s pretty sexy. I like women who read.” - Rip”

— Kailin Gow

“Let’s get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let’s close it like a book and go on reading! New…

— John Steinbeck

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe…

— Saul Williams

I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my…

— Dave Barry

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading…

— Anonymous

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which…

— Philip Sidney

I'm always reading books, I'm always having encounters, I'm always taking trips. Whatever it is you come up with about how you…

— Nick Laird

One of the most important things that we as Christians can do is regularly fill our hearts and minds with God's Word.…

— Christine Caine

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or…

— Charles de Lint

Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon…

— Will Eisner

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She…

— Jincy Willett

You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show…

— Nick Denton

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I…

— Dolly Parton

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I…

— Chris Abani

Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I…

— Pankaj Mishra

I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book…

— Danielle Dutton

In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!

— Dwayne Hickman

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I'm am an expert at reading lips especially when it's not moving.

— Nikhil Saluja

“The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business.”

— Michael Ben Zehabe

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. —LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH”

— Wendy Wax

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

— Steven Wright

Books do not require either symbols or enemies to be worth reading.

— Ff

“To me; reading a book is like watching a movie. Once I start, I can't stop until it's over.”

— Anonymous

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

— Katherine Mansfield

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I thought about how I'd play a vampire for awhile because I grew up watching vampire films and reading books.

— Joseph Morgan

Reading a teleprompter is not what makes you presidential. It's your actions that you take, and it's democracy.

— Linda Sarsour

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

— Maurice Sendak

“Don't call yourself discouraged anymore;it's no longer your name.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

— Ray Bradbury

“Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie”

— Anita Silvey