Reading Quotes · Page 161

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

— Benjamin Franklin

The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact.

— Andrew Motion

Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.

— Amy Plum

“So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.”

— Chad Harbach

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature

— William Shakespeare

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading…

— Groucho Marx

They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

— Marcel Proust

What you read on the Internet or on anything electronic can be taken away, providing power isn't provided. However, books and the…

— Rian Dalton

I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of…

— Rakim

When I'm sitting in my hotel room, I'm reading. If I've got some time after class, I'm reading. If I can get…

— Myles Garrett

“It’s not the story-line that makes for good reading…but the storyteller. I believe Mark Twain could have filled out a credit application…

— Rob Wood

It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a…

— Greg Iles

I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some…

— Sara Shepard

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains…

— John Selden

I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's…

— Freddie Highmore

What meaning do our lives have if we cannot set aside at least one hour a day out of 24 for thinking…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Every time I do a movie, I'm reading the script, or if it's something I have coming up, I'm reading the script,…

— Mark Wahlberg

“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the…

— Virginia Woolf

“The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other…

— Pierre Bayard

As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the Armed Forces of the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment…

— Pico Iyer

[John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character…

— Ron Clements

“The difference between Marilyn’s and Jayne’s approach to intellectual pursuits is that Marilyn carried big heavy books around and hung out with…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

— Whittaker Chambers

“A single poem, alone can turn tides scatter galaxies and burst forth with rivers from paradise.”

— Sanober Khan

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

— Sean Wilentz

“Reading is the least laborious of all the tasks that fall to the student's lot.”

— Quintilian

“When reading I pretend I’m an editor, though when writing I realize I’m not.”

— Fierce Dolan

...you can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies.

— Josh Quittner

“One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.”

— C.S. Lewis

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

— Jacques Amyot

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

— Lord Byron

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

— Gore Vidal

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

— Larry McMurtry

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

— Alicia Keys

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

— Paul Westerberg

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write…

— Nicholson Baker

“In life you only get what you put in, the same is true for reading.”

— Carmela Dutra