Reading Quotes · Page 164

Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.

— Eden Robinson

Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

— Johannes Kepler

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!" Not what he pleases, but what…

— George MacDonald

Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.

— William Safire

“There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist.”

— Lyra Parish

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

— Anonymous

“If u only read the books that everyone's reading, you can think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami

“For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what…

— Joe Fassler

There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a…

— Al Madrigal

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading!…

— Andrew Lang

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of…

— A.C. Grayling

Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they…

— Joan Aiken

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think…

— Tom Felton

I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie…

— Alex Pettyfer

The more fluent the experience of reading a quote - or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the…

— Maria Konnikova

I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and…

— Tanith Lee

It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of…

— Treat Williams

I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is,…

— Annette Bening

Obviously I've been reading Kafka for a long long time, since I was really young, and even before I ever read him…

— Nicole Krauss

“Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In my mind, there is no question that they're out there. My Career is well established. My texts books are required reading…

— Michio Kaku

“The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to…

— Jane Austen

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but…

— Ronald Frame

Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.

— John Rhys-Davies

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

— Margaret Oliphant

“Revolutions can, and often have, begun with reading. The Doctor and the Saint”

— Arundhati Roy

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

— Kevin Nealon

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

— Patrick O'Brian

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

— Paul Eldridge

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

— Ezra Pound

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

— John Cale

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

— Oliver Goldsmith

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

— George Eliot

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

— Rebecca Loos

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

— Anonymous

I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic…

— Elin Hilderbrand