Reading Quotes · Page 171

I love reading but I never last very long because I fall asleep right away.

— Andre Rieu

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

— Barack Obama

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

— Lynda Barry

“You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

— David Maraniss

“A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.”

— Gabrielle Dubois

“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read…

— Erika Johansen

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

— Peter Morgan

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.…

— Alan Dean Foster

I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then…

— William Zinsser

It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized…The only men I know…

— Larry Niven

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the…

— Ezra Pound

The city of Morrow needs good leadership today and in the future years. I enjoy reading and learning from established leaders. Reading…

— Anonymous

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of…

— Daniel Handler

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming…

— Anonymous

... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books…

— Carolyn Wells

Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive…

— Charlotte Mendelson

But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of…

— Jack London

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for…

— Karen Traviss

“He passed his hands over some of the fine embossed bindings as he thought, I am a book also, words and thoughts…

— Ari Berk

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go…

— Adora Svitak

Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth…

— George Akerlof

My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had…

— Bill Crow

But, for the role of Sarah Linden, we saw everybody. Everybody wanted this role. Every female actor in town really wanted to…

— Veena Sud

Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing Encourage More Reading..!

— Sujit Lalwani

I used to spend hours reading the Sunday papers, but then I had 900 children so I don't any more.

— Claudia Winkleman

When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.

— Celeste Ng

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live.

— Eileen Myles

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

— Maxim Gorky

Everything I know about Facebook makes me want to avoid it. Twitter has really improved my reading habits.

— Robert Christgau

“Reading is like therapy; the characters are the therapist, their world is their office, and the adventures are the sessions.”

— Jordan Bowers

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

— Melvil Dewey

“What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.”

— Gabrielle Dubois

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do…

— Matthew Perry

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

— Marcus Aurelius

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

— P. C. Cast

“The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes.”

— Peter Mendelsund

I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.

— Keri Russell