Reading Quotes · Page 162

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

— Ezra Pound

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

— Steven Wright

“Reading is a kind of magic that transforms the world around you”

— Rachel

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

— Michael Morpurgo

One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.

— Cathleen Schine

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

— Chris Van Allsburg

“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The best rule of reading will be a method from nature, and not a mechanical one of hours and pages.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have lived long enough to know that wherever there is crisis there is always Christ. Look for Jesus in the middle…

— Patience Johnson

I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the…

— Paul Bettany

“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense)…

— Harold Brodkey

It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs…

— F. L. Lucas

“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other…

— Italo Calvino

Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone…

— Stephen King

You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the…

— Robert Kirkman

I was not a great student at the University of Chicago. I think that is - the record will bare me out.…

— Bernie Sanders

“Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I…

— Anna Quindlen

Who shot you?" For a moment he looked annoyed. "I fail to see what that's got to do with anything. Reading assures…

— Anne Stuart

The best way to encourage economic vitality and growth is to let people keep their own money.When you spend your own money,…

— George W. Bush

“Eddie Carroll had just come in from outside, and read Noonan's letter standing in the mudroom. He flipped to the beginning of…

— Joe Hill

“As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us…

— Clifton Fadiman

I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult,…

— J. K. Rowling

Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs…

— Barbara Holland

I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature…

— James Cameron

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

— James Patterson

So there's this girl .. She's beautifull and she's reading this ... right now !

— Nathaniel Aveyro

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

— Thornton Wilder

Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.

— Carl Bereiter

“To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.”

— Lisa Kleypas

For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.

— Claire Messud

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

— J. K. Rowling

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

— Christine Keeler

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

— John Wesley

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own…

— Stephen King

Reading about myself on Perez Hilton was kind of the weirdest thing ever.

— Melissa Benoist

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

— Erica Jong

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

— Anonymous

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

— Isaac Barrow

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

— Morris Chestnut