Reading Quotes · Page 22

“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

— Ron Clements

When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by…

— Adam Smith

I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I…

— Gao Xingjian

I didn't grow up reading the Bible.

— Anna Diop

I think the idea of signing on to a sort of very commercial show and a show that is as expansive as…

— Jonathan Bailey

Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a…

— Richard M. Nixon

“To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books.…

— Robert M. Hutchins

I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling.…

— Van Morrison

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

— Kate DiCamillo

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

— Bill Vaughan

My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the…

— Peter Morgan

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

— Walter Dean Myers

Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

— Adam Gopnik

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

— Alexander Pope

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that…

— Jessica Mitford

“On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap,…

— Simon Cheshire

Talking to the British about sex is like talking to Americans about reading. Nobody does it so why talk about it?

— Greg Proops

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

— Frederick Lenz

I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who…

— Lois Lowry

Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn…

— Glen Hansard

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

— Richard Wright